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Down with Melodrama. Ironically, the real reason for Cenerentola's long neglect has been another quality of Rossini's score: it demands the coloratura style throughout. The men as well as the women are called upon for whirlwind runs, tumbling arpeggios and fluttering trills. Today's singers (except for a few sopranos with eccentric larynxes) consider coloratura about as easy as tightrope walking, and few bother to take the necessary strenuous training...
...Harvard calendar extends far into the future, no immediate change is possible. But the family consciences of family professors and instructors can only be proud if they neglect to take attendance at Monday classes. Easter spirit requires no less...
...alumni did not really mind his emphasis on brains, but they heartily resented his neglect of brawn. He flatly refused to recruit athletes, forced the Denver Pioneer Club to stop talent-scouting for high-school stars, frowned on the weekly pep luncheons of the Quarterback Club. Annual attendance at football games fell from 110,000 to 50,000, and at one game hit a low of 3,500. Last year things got so bad that D.U. lost every one of its seven Mountain States Conference games...
...thereby give those readers who were not present something to think about. Brief restatement requires paraphrase, not quotation. The latter calls too often for further comment, and those words that are all things to all men, like "departmentalization," only put the reader to sleep. You cannot afford to neglect this matter of style, despite your deadlines. It should be a concern second only to deciding which news is most useful to a community representing, so many different interests. Angus Stewart Fletcher...
...movements of history.....the problems of a dynamic social order, the curiosity that science arouses, are more effective to this end than memorizing bare facts. ......The general objection of educators is that the emphasis of ROTC is so exclusively on practical details of the "know how" to the neglect of the complimentary "know...