Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public trustee of the world-famed arboretum, herbarium, and library in Jamaica Plain, the University decided in January, 1953, to move parts of the institution's collections to the new Herbarium building in Cambridge in order to promote productive research and to provide safer facilities for specimens...
...Plain and Fancy (music & lyrics by Albert Hague and Arnold B. Horwitt; book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman), a folk musical about the Pennsylvania Amish, ought to prove popular. A good part of the time-thanks to Broadway as well as Amish industriousness-it is refreshingly lively; the rest of the time it seems-as the Amish themselves might-refreshingly dull. The whole thing has about it a nice country smell of ripe apples and respectable oddity...
...book is an agreeable one with every so often a really funny line. By bringing to Pennsylvania a sophisticated young New Yorker (with a farm to sell) and his acidly vivacious girl friend, Plain and Fancy achieves some entertaining contrasts between plain and fancy living, country and city ways. When the Amish aren't donning their buttonless clothes, "shunning" a miscreant or putting up a barn, the city gal is being ogled by six frighteningly silent Amish youths, or is trying to pump water, churn butter, cook rice and grind sausage all at once-which makes the gayest five...
...show's great weakness-which puts Pennsylvania's rusticities miles behind Oklahoma !'s-is its uninspired score. This ack of musical verve-there isn't too much dancing, either-helps explain why Plain and Fancy has a lot of sociological charm but very little social gaiety; why it smells of apples that seem uniformly destined for pie rather than cider...
Amherst conductor Charles W. Ludington seems not to share Professor Woodworth's views. Largely because of poor diction and breathy tone, the Glee Club's sound was nearly always pale in upper voices and muddy in the bass. These failings actually enhanced the plain chant Te Lucis, but consistently spoiled the music of later composers. Even Charpentier's lovely Magnificat almost became an insipid bore--despite the excellence of violinists John Goodkind and John Barson, and Harvard cellist Stephen McGhee. After a mediocre Schubert cantata, the visitors offered a Bacchanals from Offenbach's La Belle Helene. At its close...