Word: impromptue
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...elements added. We’d say it’s a modernized Fosse style.”All staff members emphasize the extreme talent and dedication of cast members. Besides learning the show material quickly, many cast members rehearsed on their own wherever they could find space. The impromptu run-throughs of the show’s musical numbers led by chorus member Silas P. Howland ’08 in the hallway of his Cabot House entryway have become study break entertainment for his neighbors, who often poke their heads out of their rooms to watch...
...made it incredibly easy to hang out there for a while, maybe buy some more stuff and then come back, again and again. At a recent meeting with Ikea executives from Sweden, I was surprised to learn that consumers of the brand's small-office products like to hold impromptu meetings in the store displays. Every day seems to bring a new twist on the fundamental habit of consumption: there are pop-up stores, mobile stores, automated stores and, of course, the Internet. In Japan young women buy everything from subway passes to mascara with a swipe of their cell...
...These are some of the things I hope my successor will care about,” Summers said. Summers suggested that the set of courses that faculty members individually want to teach is not necessarily the best selection of courses for students—a remark that drew impromptu applause. Asked by one dad whether faculty tenure is an impediment to promoting excellence in undergraduate education, Summers expressed concern with the increasing age of Harvard’s professoriat due to tenure and federal laws that ban mandatory retirement. But Summers said he sees faculty tenure as important not only...
...week and one resignation later, I called up said critic to ask him 15 impromptu questions about the education blogosphere and the no-longer-so-big man on campus...
...will receive two projects from those two cities—first, an exhibition of models, miniatures, and dollhouses owned by Cantabridgians and curated by Michael Oatman, a professor at Renesselear Polytecnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.; second, the indefinable reinventions of the international group, Spurse Collective, who will install an impromptu eatery in Cambridge, with food and supplies culled from local residents and business.An exhibit at the Cambridge City Hall Annex on Broadway will accompany each project, giving more background to the transient works.According to Lillian Hsu, director of public art at the Cambridge Arts Council, this round-robin idea appealed...