Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beguiling Rosalind can do much to offset, if never quite obliterate, all this. Actress Hepburn's Rosalind reflects too much the player and too little the part. She seems the very best sort of performer -talented, cultured and good-looking-in college dramatics; she plays the whole thing more as a romp than a love story, and does beautifully by the blank verse while skating right over the poetry. William Prince makes a pleasantly lovesick Orlando, Ernest Thesiger a relentlessly melancholy Jaques...
...much undeveloped mineral wealth, all the main strategic raw materials except coking coal, and that may be largely offset by her hydroelectrical potential...
...fine Gallic playfulness. It improvises a quick, ingenious answer for everything, doubtless as a way of saying that there is no certain answer for anything, and that the nearest thing to release from care is a fantasy by Giraudoux. The obvious theater qualities which The Enchanted lacks are richly offset by the rare ones it has. It is rather a shame that the production has just the earthiness needed by the play, the play just the airiness needed by the production. Adapter Valency's version is good and George S. Kaufman's staging far from bad. Leueen MacGrath...
...cross country win over the Crimson this fall, Massachusetts proved its power in the distances. But Harvard coach Jaakko Mikkola feels confident that his team will put up a good fight in the distance races and that any possible Massachusetts edge in that department will be offset by Crimson strength in the sprints and weight events...
...Kaltenborn '09, radio news commentator, disclosed in a recent letter to the CRIMSON that he had sent "a small contribution to the Harvard Radio Network to help offset any possible loss . . . in advertising revenue" incurred from any comments detrimental to WHRB he made at the Law School Forum on December...