Word: maling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Darrell Fancourt was a properly grotesque, and villainous Dick Deadeye, but that was to be expected. Most surprising was the performance of Thomas Round as Ralph Rackstraw. In less able hands, this role can become just another callow juvenile, latched onto the plot to take care of the male side of the love interest, and for little other purpose. But Round didn't devote himself to a simple display of his fine voice--he added a mature and well-constructed characterization that made his part more than just that of First Tenor...
...Geoffrey Household is an Englishman with a quiet gift for telling tales. He made a success in 1939 with a story about a big game hunter's attempt to stalk Hitler with telescopic sights. After that book, Rogue Male,* he went to the Near East as an intelligence officer, seeing action in Greece and intrigue in Syria and Palestine...
...opening of the twentieth century had a small but distinct faculty. However, during all this growth, the backbone, the drawing appeal, the top names on the Radcliffe lists were members of the Harvard Faculties. As President Eliot's elective plan widened the offerings for male scholars, the ladies also benefited, for more and more courses were given both here and the at the Annex...
...activities. The Orchestra then separated from the Pierian, and the later organization became a sort of godfather to the fledgling one. The Sodality assumed much the same role which it occupies today, that is as an honorary social society in charge of the administration and financing of the Orchestra. Male members of the Orchestra are usually admitted after one year of "faithful service...
...mere medical publishing house like W. B. Saunders Co. can make big money on Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (at $6.50), a lot of other publishers would like to get in the act. This week, with the Kinsey Report still high (No. 3) on the non-fiction bestseller list, publishers were scrambling to turn out volumes appraising Kinsey's statistics, arguing with Kinsey's conclusions-or just riding the Kinsey bandwagon...