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...discuss various interpretations and finally compromise with Krag saying, "Emphasize the note on heart and the diction on stone and fire." Throughout the evening the singthrough is punctuated by conferences, laughter and corny jokes. Afterwards, walking back to North House. Krag talks about choosing the cast. The auditions were low-key and relaxed; Krag and Gratto sat cross-legged on a couch and listened to people sing. There was not long table from behind which the play director and music director scrutinized prospective cast members or furiously scribbled notes during an audition. No physical barriers between those choosing and those...
...academic angle harder. I also tell them our campus has a cosmopolitan atmosphere, and you can't forget it is a school with a nationwide following." Where appropriate, he mentions Notre Dame's Roman Catholic underpinnings. Boulac, a gentle giant, helps his sell with a sincere, low-key delivery. When he needs help, he turns to distinguished Notre Dame alumni. In Dallas, he is likely to make home visits with Joe Haggar, whose family owns Haggar Co., the slacks manufacturer, and put up money for Haggar Stadium at Jesuit Prep...
Kelley, a low-key psychology major, is averaging 20 points per game, leads the conference in rebounding, and also paces Stanford in assists. Says John Wooden: "Kelley is every bit as valuable and as important to Stanford as Walton was to U.C.L.A...
...believe in free enterprise," says Jim Rosner, 30, president of the firm and another former employee at Spencer-Roberts. Rosner and Roberts used their public relations know-how last fall to push their training program. They put on a low-key ad campaign, supplemented with plugs by some of the nine staff members on local talk shows. Seven hundred would-be companions responded. Threshold has not yet advertised for paying clients, however, preferring to build up a stable of trained companions first. The applicants are psychologically screened to eliminate the unstable and any religious enthusiasts intent on deathbed conversions...
...YORKER is distinguished above all by plain good writing; but, more than that, especially in the "casuals" and "Talk pieces" that appear in the front of the magazine, the writing shows a distinctive humor, low-key and urbane, that seems to float effortlessly above all that is encumbered and earth-bound. "How easy I have found it," Gill writes, "to rush pell-mell through the world, playing the clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me, and colliding with good times at every turn." It's as if he has lived his life in New Yorker style, a life...