Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the facts, many Peruvians would surely regard Negreiros as a martyr to his political faith. With only three months to go before national elections, Odria could boast that he had finally decapitated Aprismo. But it looked as if its ghost would haunt him for years to come...
...story concerns an old, unused Pennsylvania mansion, and the resentment of the family ghosts who haunt it when they learn it is to be inhabited again by living people. What alone cheers them is that there is to be a wedding in the house, for now, after 87 years, a pair of dead lovers can be married, too. The weddings are interrupted by murder, which turns the second half of the evening into a whodunit. The whole evening is tethered to a gag which makes ghosts visible only to virgins...
...goes skillfully through the motions, is badly out of character. It has all of James's technical finesse but it is often nearly as commercial as the kind of music that Trumpeter Douglas rails against. Jazz fans will also be surprised to learn that a Greenwich Village jazz haunt's customers all wear impeccable evening dress...
There is nothing very awful about the show; it's just that there is nothing particularly good. Morton Gould's music falls agreeably enough on the ear, but little of it will ever haunt the memory. Michael Kidd's dances have a lively but not unfamiliar spin. Adapted from 1933's The Pursuit of Happiness, the book, for something with history as well as humor on its mind, does fairly well, but it is only a book, and a much too bulky...
Nine o'clock: There is only one offering for the early ones today. Mather lectures in Soc. Sci. 113 in his old haunt, the Geological Lecture Room. The subject is "The Impact of Science on Modern Life." Mather speaks well, and his interests have always extended far beyond rocks, but his lectures tend to be somewhat shallow...