Word: intra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday night's performance by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, led by Elliot Forbes, surmounted the considerable technical difficulties of the work, but threatened to break upon the Scylla of a capella singing, intonation. The intra-chorus work was satisfactory, with the exception of several bewildering opening bars of various sections; but as each part went on, the chorus, depressed by a rather cowardly soprano section, sank lower and lower, and at the end of the second movement was grovelling around a third lower than was written, producing the weird impression of a record being played...
...Quantico, Wadsworth hurled six innings and gave up one hit, and although he walked five, only one man reached second. Since vacation, Wadsworth has worked in two intra-squad games and has given every indication that he has mastered his control problems...
Piatigorsky who alternates a tricky top spin serve with his vicious cannon ball, has yet to lose a match this spring in intra-squad play. Possessing much match experience, he plays well at the net aided by an extremely sharp volley...
Since the party split in 1948, the great political art of compromise has held the Democratic Party together. The South warned the party, and the Civil Rights plank of the Democratic platform was considerably watered down. In 1956, to the dissatisfaction of most liberals, Harry Truman himself averted an intra-party fight by dramatically taking the floor and calling for party unity at all costs...
These 13 groups represent more diversity than activity. In the large, partisan groups, the grasp for personal power and prestige often exceeds the grasp of real political issues. Concern for intra-organizational structure can be carried to extremes, and it is unfortunate that self-conscious phrases like "bureaucratic hierarchy" and "public image" are so indispensible to these clubs...