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...chamber orchestra of the English Opera Group, as originally scheduled,*but that was a poor excuse for failing to do well by Mozart. Wrote the Algemeen Handelsblad: "If Benjamin Britten belongs to the elect, yesterday he was degraded to the level of the many. It was an insipid, listless and pitiful concert . . . the public was faced with a difficult problem: cool reception or forced applause." The Nieuwe Rotterdamse C our ant was slightly more polite: "A quiet, genial evening for anyone who had left exacting criticism at home...
...Madrid bull ring one afternoon last week, the torero was as clumsy as Sancho Panza, and the bull as listless as Rosinante. The aficionados booed, hissed, threw programs and cushions into the ring. Police tried in vain to quell the uproar. No one had seen anything like it in Spain for twelve years-since Franco came to power and banned bullring demonstrations, a beloved Spanish custom. Howled one spectator: "We want bulls for our money...
Speed and spirit made the difference as Middlesex ran circles around a listless Yardling lacrosse team and defeated it, 10 to 6, on the Business School field yesterday. Captain Monk Aiello paced the Crimson scoring with a goal and three assists, while Captain Dick Shriver led Middlesex with a tally and four assists...
...Carter Products to use the word "liver" in the name of its pills, but told Carter's to stop claiming that its pills are specific remedies for conditions in which an individual feels "down-and-out, blue, down-in-the-dumps, worn out, sunk, logy, depressed, sluggish, allin, listless, mean, low, cross, tired, stuffy, heavy, miserable, sour, grouchy, irritable, cranky, peevish, fagged out, dull, sullen, what's-the-use, bogged down, grumpy, run down or gloomy...
...nine man Branford College hockey squad outskated the Dudley sextet, 4 to 1. Saturday at the Boston Skating Club to win the Harvard-Yale intramural title. Dudley, 17-men strong, seemed slow and listless compared to the Bulldogs...