Word: pot-pourri
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...clear that the Collegium provides its members with superb musical opportunities. In addition to their December 3 concert, Collegium will sing with the Boston Symphony. Michael Tilson Thomas conducting, in his new Spectrum series. One of the pieces performed will be "Pot-pourri" by Harvard's David del Tredici. The Collegium will also present the Mozart Requiem on April 23 in St. Paul's here in Cambridge, and may sing at the Loeb Arts Festival later in the spring...
...fact, next year that pot-pourri will bubble even more. Most of Dudley's facilities will move into the fourth floor of a renovated Lehman Hall. And the rest of Lehman is going to be turned into Crossroads-Harvard. There will be lounge and study facilities, a reference library and television classroom for Harvard's hitherto mysterious night students, and what will nominally be the Dudley House Dining Hall--and in reality a combination Waldor-Elsie's Pamplona. The dining room, according to Dudley's Master Thomas E. Crooks, "will serve as a central meeting place where students and teachers...
...French are very much given to psychology and the like in their film making, and Inspector Maigret has more than its share. Mother-son, husband-wife, wife-mother-in-law relations are explored somewhat to the detriment of the story, but Gabin manages to turn the whole pot-pourri into a first-rate show...
...would be a mass of realists, as they are called, "magic" or otherwise, and a crowd of abstractionists, enchanted or unenchanted in like fashion. There would be the hawkers of social reform, the psychological brooders, those of the dark palettes, and so forth. In short, there would be a pot-pourri of most everything. Feininger invariably survived the tempest as one of the few who indeed justified it. Those interested parties among us who eagerly engage the democratic process in support of the muse usually wind up attempting to lift a few aristocrats from the debris. Lyonel Feininger was always...
Unless we judge a magazine on make-up or typicality, Summer's dish of pot-pourri fails to justify its seventy-five cents. Audience is heavy and directionless. And dull...