Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Summer School officials express "grave concern" over the enrollment of only 21 people at the school. Ex-freshman dean and new Summer School director F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '37 announces that he hopes to rescue the school with the addition of a rigorous program in polo. "I see this as a democratic program well suited to the school's populist tradition," von Stade explains...
...play, greed so compelling as to raise it to an obsessive lust for money. In this reincarnation, the setting has become San Francisco in the 1890s. Volpone has become Foxwell J. Sly, played with shark's-tooth gusto by George C. Scott. Rich and childless. Sly feigns grave illness in order to arouse the hopes of avaricious, fawning and wealthy townsfolk who hope to become his heir...
Hopefully, the Harvard basketball team will be able to ignore grave diggers like Mr. Savit, and go on to win its fair share of ballgames. Then perhaps Satch will sleep well, while a certain uninformed, pessimistic, grand-standing reporter tosses and turns at night, dreaming about the team that really wasn't quite as bad as it seemed. Charles P. Baker
...Seltzer the Players have found a director who knows what to do with all that talent. Seltzer's version of Pirates boasts plenty of directorial business: There are the banners proclaiming "Death and Slaughter" and "Glory and the Grave," unfurled as the policemen prepare to combat the pirates; the purposeful delay in starting Major General Stanley's famous patter song ("I am the very model of a modern Major General"); the instantaneous characterization of the last policeman as a bumbler out of step with the rest. But more impressive is Seltzer's general handling of the cast--not only...
There was almost an evocation of Paris bistros in "Ile de France," the third part, which was swooning and quick-paced, ending on a sudden clash but not as movingly played as the others. The reflective quality of the winds, controlled and temperate, suffused the grave "Alsace-Lorraine," which seemed most to beckon recollections of the Second World War. The Concert Band have a rather moving, swelling climax here, and the tolling of the drums came across well with contrasting dolefullness and sobriety amid the dance of the winds at the end. "Provence," the last part, contained the richest melodies...