Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treatment of "Stars and Stripes Forever." In between, the orchestra played the usual Pops potpourri ranging from Tchaikovsky to Irving Berlin. The musicians, all members of the B.S.O., played well on the whole, with the exception of their rather lackadaisical reading of Komzak's "Girls of Baden" Waltz. The highlight of the program was Milhand's clever little Fantasy for piano and orchestra, with the young and brilliant Eugene List as soloist...
Furthermore, many of the ads are well-written. The Life Magazine graph of Harvard tastes is provocative, to say the least, and Jordan Marsh's cartoon might easily be considered a highlight of the issue...
...plot is too innocuous to get in the way, spectators are free to concentrate their attention on the song and dance routines. The movie's highlight comes when Astaire and Miss Powell clown their way through a mouthful called "How Could You Believe Me When I Tell You That I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life." Also outstanding is an Astaire solo where, aided by a revolving room, he dances on the walls and ceilings in seeming defiance of all laws of gravity...
...highlight of the present year was a three-day junket to New York City during the fall reading period. Niemans were guests of ex-Niemans now living in New York at a dinner with Carroll Binder, editor of the Minneapolis Tribune and U. S. representative on the UN Commission on Freedom of Information. They spent the next day poking into affairs of the U. S. UN Mission headquarters, visiting UN facilities at Lake Success and sipping cocktails with New York Times editors...
Readiness through increased productive capacity rather than more stockpiling of soon-outmoded weapons must highlight America's mobilization policy, according to 18 Business School faculty members. In an article prepared for the January issue of the Business Review, the group analyzes this country's economic capacity for the present crisis...