Word: haphazard
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Getting off to a smoldering start in New York City, the action manages to meander through both time and space in haphazard fashion that loses much of the plot in the resulting confusion of dash-backs and scene changes. June Allyson, daughter of a piano virtuoso gone wrong, seems inspired to follow the fingers of her unlucky father to her doom. But before she strikes too many wrong notes, the rest of the cast comes bustling to her rescue, uncovers her hidden love and chalks up another point for the old Arabian saying...
...Reisner bequest will fill out Harvard's haphazard collection of detective stories, started by such mystery-loving professors as the late George Lyman Kittredge. History-conscious Harvard keeps them for research purposes, buys a half dozen new titles every year because they reflect "part of the American scene." It 'makes no attempt to circulate them widely. Says Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf uneasily: "We are a research library, and I should think that anyone who wanted a detective story would go to some other library...
Opera, Italian style, is flourishing in all its prewar luxuriance-a little haphazard by German standards but vocally superb. While in Rome I witnessed an outdoor performance of Aïda with nearly a thousand people in the cast of characters, done on a lavish scale that made Radio City Music Hall look like a miniature. Italy shows no signs of a cultural letdown. It is excited, exuberant and ready...
...University charter could insure proper use of this money. But this negative phase of University supervision should be reinforced by wider interest on the part of members of the faculty in club activities. Scholars with interests ranging from photographic chemistry to Chinese politics could be given more than a haphazard chance to add impetus to these projects. What is missing is an effort to organize and promote this type of participation...
...clock last Sunday afternoon, a band of intrepid adventurers gathered together to inaugurate a new period in the colorful history of jazz at Harvard A haphazard group of instrumentalists it is no doubt they were, with two clarinetists and one clarinet, a cornet, a trombone, a piano man and a suitcase expert. But they were united in their devotion to the principle that jazz sans arrangements, sans rehearsals, and in short sans everything but spirit, lung power, and a smattering of relative pitch is worth an hour or so every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown...