Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although over 60 per cent of the medley manuscripts were destroyed in the fire at the Varsity Club last Monday, the Band will still be able to perform most of its original selections. Scores or parts of scores still exist for all selections except the Dartmouth medley by Leroy Anderson...
...character out of Dumas fils. There is some talk about his ordering the errant one out of his house, and then a while later he observes lugubriously, "You have just given me the greatest sorrow of my life." Of course the daughter has not selected just anybody to perform the act of darkness with, and we are treated to the unveiling of the structure of interlocking copulations which is usual in second-rate French drama. We also get a good helping of the sort of dialogue that too often accompanies it: "Forgive me for being so intimate with your husband...
...Joan. On hearing of the choice, Shaw cabled: "Delighted to hear St Joan being done at Harvard stop have always wanted to see Joan played by male." The choice was excellent; and the production, in Sanders Theatre, was magnificent. Typical of Kilty's directive imagination was the decision to perform the coronation scene in the transept of Memorial Hall. The audience moved out of Sanders and became the congregation; the scene was played on a specially constructed altar at the north end, while fire-department searchlights outdoors focussed on the stained-glass windows over-head. The consensus was reflected...
...signs of the times: "The only trouble with our intellectual habit of likening our times to the . . . decadent Roman Empire and the challenge of the barbarians is that in the earlier case there was a vital, revolutionary new leaven at work . . . Whether Christianity can once again perform that function remains to be seen. To do so would require a pretty radical rebirth of Christian thought, of which I wish I could see more signs. Perhaps we may find such a rebirth in the remembrance of the Birth, that timeless fact about God which did once turn the world upside down...
Although he felt that American universities had progressed greatly in recent years, the President called on them to remembr that their essential function is "not to produce goods or perform services, but to keep a life of mind vigorous and functioning among...