Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platform instead of in the pit. Pauly, like all the other singers, rose formally to take her cues, sat down each time she had done, did little physical acting. But her voice was so evidently equal to the difficult score, her lines so deeply felt, that listeners forgot the lack of staging...
Believing that the reason for the success of the Yale inter-college athletic system rests in the distinction made between informality and lack of organization, the report on Harvard athletics by the Student Council stressed the need for full-time director and salaried supervisors and managers, which Yale...
...aspect of this exuberance is the obvious pains that Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have put themselves to in writing the book. They have tried so hard to make their product entertaining that one is somehow won over by the pervasive enthusiasm, and persuaded to forgive them the lack of any brilliance. Their attempts at social comment are especially feeble. They apparently felt that no play could dare to appear before this hyper-socially-conscious world without some reference to President Roosevelt, the American race problem, Communism, and "Comes the Revolution", even if that play be an avowed farce. Their...
Several causes have been prominent in contributing to the present weakness of the Debating Council. First is the tendency for a few crack debaters to monopolize the large outside contests and leave the less capable orators without an opportunity to exercise their talents. Second comes a lack of participation on the part of those who are only mildly interested, men who, because of an indifferent hierarchy at the top, inadequate organization of meetings, and little or no chance for coaching, have felt it useless to come out. And third, the present excellent coach has been able to give time from...
...other years attempts have been made along the same lines, usually ending soon from lack of popular interest, but they have always originated in the Athletic Association and been pressed on the Yardlings from above. In this respect, the present plan is unique, having started among the students themselves...