Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More to the point, this was definitely one of the group's ups, and they performed the Mass with such success that its 160-odd years of neglect seem an unforgivable oversight. The only uncooperative figure was Trinity Church itself, which turned out to be an acoustical flop. It has no capacity for distributing sound throughout its Romanesque caverns, and if you were sitting as I was with the basses and tenors turned away from you, you scarcely heard them...
...Green is an English novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...
Munro, who came from Trinity last fall to coach soccer and lacrosse, had been sweating out the indoor practice season with one eye on the 52-odd varsity and freshmen tryouts and the other eye on the barometer, waiting for a chance to get his hopefuls outdoors, where men are gazelles and there aren't any balls bouncing off the roof onto one's head...
...twenty-four lucky winners will spend their holiday plying up and down the Charles often to the extent of 20-odd miles a day. By this process a fairly definite varsity boating will have emerged by the time the rest of us return to Cambridge...
...greatest love story ever filmed" is the modest encomium reserved by MGM for its latest romantic outburst. David Niven and Teresa Wright are the protagonists in this cosmic match, and they are backed up by a talking house, a war, and 60-odd years worth of flashbacks...