Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance of "The Gondoliers" is a rarity in America. Although amateur performances have been given by Middle-sex School, Concord Academy, and the Radcliffe Idler, Boston has not seen a professional performance in twelve years. This lack of an American stage tradition for the piece is evident in its new revival at the Hollis...
...little doubt. In some courses the student's interest is systematically deadened by an atavistic throwback to the days before printing when lectures necessarily fulfilled the functions of text-books. Even when professors are careful to present something more than standard text-book material, their courses are likely to lack vitality. There is an inevitable tendency toward that familiar process, the transfer of information from the teacher's to the student's notebook without passing through the head of either. The greatest influence on that tendency is, of course, the personality of the instructor, but too many have neglected...
...film shows an obvious attempt on the part of the producers to provide Arliss with a vehicle, however crude, in which to display his often repeated and admittedly delightful mannerisms. The whole performance was rendered so obvious by overacting on the part of the supporting cast, and lack of imagination on the part of the author that Arliss' already overworked portrayal of a twinkling gentleman of leisure failed utterly to produce the desired effect...
Some 15,000 workers and their families (totaling 35,000) were shipped by barge and camelback to the job site, have lived there in tents and eaten up most of the money. Lack of rationalization (coordination) permitted the Balkhazhstroy project to be launched on a schedule calling for the arrival of 300,000 tons of construction materials yearly?whereas the most that Lake Balkhazh's two tiny steamers and three barges have been able to carry is 10,000 tons for the year just ended...
Conductor Hertz was ousted two years ago. Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron imported. But the orchestra has continued to drift nearer & nearer the rocks through lack of general support...