Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is one part of the modern burlesque show, however, which is almost worth the price of admission: the management's between the acts sales line. The head huckster's is the greatest performance...
...says blushingly, "I don't see how I could have been so romantic then." Although Woodworth follows Professor Davison's precedent in presenting a majority of classical choral music, including a yearly rendition of Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he still has a weakness for modern American classics, ranging from Hindemith to "Casey Jones...
Lawrence Creshkoff '46 and Stephen J. Gilman '44, reciting selections from two modern poets, won the Boylston. Speaking Prizes last night in Paine Hall. Robert L. Fischelis '50, Edward R. W. Franklin '47, and Durham M. Miller '47 finished in second place...
...related act of impressions, studded with vivid, sensuous imagery. In "Objects" and in his other two poems, Wilbur handles both rhyme and rhythm with subtlety and originality. "A Sermon," by John Ashbery, comments inclusively on a Bibical passage in terms of the frustration and spiritual blindness of modern society...
...discretion of the Attorney-General and his advisers. Unless the government exercises the utmost moderation in the execution of the loyalty tests, the abuses inherent in the plan will go far to destroy an ideology while trying to protect it. Before the Attorney-General unwittingly sets off a modern version of the Salem witch hunts, he would do well to consider the fiasco that culminated in the Sacco-Vanzetti case after the first World...