Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victoria de Los Angeles launch a German recital tour. At the piano behind her was one of the most gifted and certainly the most eloquent of present-day accompanists, England's Gerald Moore, who says: "The accompanist who 'follows' but does not anticipate is a dull, pedestrian sort of fellow, without electricity, a fallen arch in the march of time...
...most fun of all. At least that's the way I felt after last night's joint concert of the Harvard Glee Club and the Yale Glee Club in Sanders Theatre. The first two-thirds of the concert, with one important exception, were pleasant enough, occasionally humorous, at times pedestrian, but not really very much for a reviewer to praise or condemn. Then, at about ten o'clock, after some tepid renditions of a couple of spirituals, the Yale Glee Club burst, not totally unexpectedly, into Harvardiana...
First, we have the question: What happened to the New Frontier? Senator Kennedy's call at his nomination for a new and higher outlook for American democracy has given way to the more pedestrian concept of "getting America moving again" and to the even more disappointing emphasis on staying ahead of the Russians. Most liberals (and probably Senator Kennedy himself) feel that the Democrats' programs of school construction, urban renewal, civil rights progress and social welfare are worth doing on their own merits, not merely as weapons in cold warfare. These rational liberals wish that Senator Kennedy would stress these...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Affiliation Committee, a student group which has spent a year and a half investigating the administrative, academic, and extracurricular relationships between the two Colleges, has produced a series of disappointingly shortsighted, pedestrian, or obvious recommendations for altering the present situation, No doubt the committee is to be commended for the good sense and practicality of most of is proposals, but a little more long-range creative thinking about the problems and possibilities of Harvard-Radcliffe affiliation might have produced a more valuable guide to action. As the report stands, some of its strongest recommendations lose much of their...
...shine-/and t0 hdl with everything else!/That is my motto-/and the sun's!" Snatches of exuberant, pure song survive their pedestrian translation and make Mayakovsky sound like a moujik Whitman