Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...designed by Henry Dreyfuss, the Columbine itself combines the accouterment of an aerial yacht and the functions of a flying White House. To its chief passengers, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower, the entire rear third of the plane is devoted. There a softly muted green-"Eisenhower green"-strikes a note of easy relaxation: grey-green carpets on the floors, rich green gabardine on the walls, white vinyl plastic on the ceiling. In the spacious stateroom, with its bleached walnut woodwork and grey-green-striped boucle upholstery, the Eisenhowers may fasten themselves with green safety belts into two big green swivel...
This harsh tone, in the eyes of Harriman partisans, is one of their man's assets as a presidential prospect for 1956. They believe that Adlai E. Stevenson strikes too soft a note against his political foes, and that next year's campaign will call for hard blows. Harriman's tone as a politician is also merely another evidence of the intensity with which he has always played any game...
...creditably. As he sings, his large bony fingers grope for confidence among the spotlight's motes, or nervously smooth the pockets of his costly dinner-suit; his gangling frame folds into the diffident attitudes of a lady companion anxious to please an exacting employer: in approaching a high note he is the schoolboy cricketer praying to hold a vital catch...
...Curiouser and curiouserl" cried Alice, when, after eating the cake in the rabbit's cavern she began to grow nine feet tall. While most Harvard people would correct Alice's grammar, and blame Malthus rather than the cake, the note of incredulity usually remains as they watch the University's policy toward the rapidly rising demand for a Harvard College education...
Ending the program on a light note, the chorus sang football and folk songs. The best of these was Casey Jones, which Edward Lawton '34 rejuvenated with deceptive cadences and a modal setting. In the football songs the singers exercised their penchant for strident tone without doing any musical harm. If they could learn more restraint in performing serious music, this would be one of the finest Glee Clubs of recent years, and a fitting group to represent Harvard in Europe...