Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Choral Society came back for six shorter numbers, including two charming German pieces, Brahms' "Der Brautigam" and Dvorak's "Das Voglein." Soloist Vivian Thomas performed capably in Moussorgsky's "Chanson D'Enfant," and Kodaly's "The Angels and the Shepherds" provided a nice finish to a long evening. Judging from Thursday night, this year is not an off-year for either singing or dancing at Radcliffe...
They were wrong, of course, but tradition being the nice thing that it is, they kept on with Armistice Day until finally nobody could think up any original speeches about why there weren't any armistices any more. So they changed the name to Veterans...
Maybe there are a lot of incompetent hangers-on who only want a place to come every day to sit around and wear nice clothes and act like big shots . .. But the ones that people don't think about very much are . . . doing things like helping the government, or guiding some great charity, or just quietly and competently guiding the destiny of a great company . . . that honestly and intelligently and faithfully advertises sound products to people who are glad to know about them. And that, after all, is what makes the economy go around...
...believes in low tariffs find happiness with a client who wants him to tout high tariffs? Van Riper's idealogue finds happiness for a while with a yummy girl reporter from a newsmagazine, finally goes back to his wife and the dream of all P.R. men: a nice little agency of his own, with clients who tariff low, pay high...
Drawing-room comedies, like drawing-room furniture, tend to be fragile and spindly, and with heavy handling The Pleasure of His Company might easily crash to bits. Happily, the authors have a feeling for tone, and have made the talk-half insulting and half elegant-a nice blend of spit and polish. The Donald Oenslager set is stylish. And with the help of a pleasant cast-Co-Author Skinner, Walter Abel, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Hart, George Peppard-Cyril Ritchard has carried things farther. Acting papa, he has the grace and precision of a lithe figure skater; directing the play...