Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared in a recital last night in Paine Hall under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund and the Harvard Department of Music, will play and sing informally again at 8 o'clock tonight in Eliot Junior Common Room, it was announced yesterday by John H. Finley, Jr., Master of Eliot House. This additional appearance is planned for Eliot House members...
...would take a master to mold these diverse elements into a cohesive story. At times able director McCarey seems close to doing it. In the opening sequences the scenes vibrate with the same effervescent youthfulness that the leads are able to exude. But when the complications set in, the whole thing misses the boat. At the fantastic, Wellsian climax, the audience is left with the feeling that Naziism should be left to the tragedians, and that future attempts at comedy should content themselves with less world-shaking themes...
...German legions swept past steelstubborn Stalingrad and liquidated Russia's power of attack, Hitler would have been not only man of the year, but he would have been undisputed master of Europe, looking for other continents to conquer. He could have diverted at least 250 victorious divisions to new conquests in Asia and Africa. But Joseph Stalin stopped him. Stalin had done it before-in 1941-when he started with all of Russia intact. But Stalin's achievement of 1942 was far greater. All that Hitler could give he took-for the second time...
...questionnaire he had sent 92 men & women who had come into contact with Buchmanism an average of 18 years ago-whose acquaintance with it is a little out of date but who have had the opportunity for a long-range view. The investigator: Walter H. Clark, a master at the Lenox School in Lenox, Mass., who is writing his Harvard Ph.D. thesis on Buchmanism. Findings...
Stocky, shrewd Xavier Cugat's secret lies not so much in the importing as in the processing of his hip-cajoling products. A master showman, on state occasions he waves a baton three times as long as Toscanini's. He dresses his men in lustrous Cuban silks and colored lights. His music, tinted to the romantic debutante's taste, features Latin violins rather than brasses. It contains just enough subtle tropical pounding and gourd rattling to give it pith, not enough to ruffle the polite suavity of an expensive hot spot. Four weeks ago Cugat added...