Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method of teaching English composition was once described by Walter Lippmann '10 as a "catch-as-catch-can wrestling match." Anyone who interested him was entitled to enjoy "Copey's" friendship and genius. Once or twice every year Copeland still gives a reading to the Freshman class, a highlight in the student's first year at Harvard...
...role of Lucius Drake, a Broadway playwright, gives a well-rounded performance that pleases everyone except Jane, the first lady of his public and private life. Jane, played by Loretta Young, can't stand being double-crossed for her own good, divorces Lucius, and marries a banker. The highlight of the picture concerns Lucius' efforts at appeasement, in which he sends everything from plumbers to chicken dinners to his recalcitrant ex. When all his efforts go for naught, the law provides a happy ending. The divorce wasn't legal...
...There are occasional mornings when, with an early fog not yet dispersed, one finds oneself . . . stepping onto the parapet. . . . Literally, there is nothing to be seen but mist. . . . What apocalypse is about to be revealed? . . . Soon, somewhere off in the mist, a single lofty highlight of gold appears: the earliest beam is upon the tip of the Metropolitan Tower...
Once a year in the spring, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral society, and the Boston Symphony pool their talents, and give a Pension Fund Concert that for many is the highlight of Boston's musical season. The bulk of these concerts has usually been one of the great religious choral works, simply because the Latin biblical and liturgical texts with their unity of feeling, their rich variety of emotional colors, and their singable sonority have always inspired the best composers to their best choral writing. This year, Koussevitsky has chosen two magnificent old ticket-sellers for his program...
...highlight of the meeting, pledges of undergraduate organizations to buy bonds will be announced, while individual pledges will be accepted at the end of the rally...