Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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> Saw his artistic preferences upheld when the United States Information Agency, stung by the boss's mild criticism of the modern art in the big U.S. fair in Moscow (TIME, July 13), hastily dropped its ban on U.S. art prior to 1918, gathered up 25 to 30 famed American...
The first in a series of three Summer Folk Festival concerts was well received by a small but enthusiastic crowd at John Hancock Hall last Friday night. Bob Gibson, accompanying himself on a five-string banjo and a twelve-string guitar, presented a program of "off-beat" folksongs and "old...
The most "off-beat" number of the evening was a flamenco instrumental on the banjo. Gibson took a familiar Andalusian melody and arranged it for five-string banjo, with striking results.
It's hard to say what makes an audience respond to a reading. Some of the most success works were the rather dramatic ones--often a brief introduction explaining the situation helped. Kunitz, especially, came off best in poems like "The Dragonfly," "The War Against the Trees," or "The Thief...
Such is my faith in Harvard. But I am not alone in my adoration for America's oldest college. One member of an English class, venting her enthusiasm for Harvard, remarked, "I just can't get the smile off my face. I try to close my mouth, but it breaks...