Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Majestic--"The Student Prince"--8.15 o'clock. An original New York cast. Antiques. Very rare...
Second is the distressing fact that among the students at Harvard those who plan to enter politics sooner or later are exceedingly rare. The wealthy students who could enter public life immediately upon the completion of their education have few public thoughts and fewer thoughts for the public; the students who must depend upon a business or profession for bread and butter do not look forward to the time when they may be free to do public service. Futile it is to point to the unattractive characteristics of present political campaigns until the competition for public office becomes so intense...
...American Laboratory Theatre, one of New York's repertory houses, Richard Boleslavsky, formerly director of the First Moscow Art Theatre Studio, stages a delightful, farcical frivolity that skips over the stage and down the aisles on pleasantly intimate terms with its audience. A French bridegroom must match a rare straw hat on his wedding day. Encumbered by a rural wedding party, driven by a fierce Lieutenant, he squirms from one ticklish situation to another, while the audience's amusement is heightened by music with strong rhythm, a buoyant chorus of youthful actors, ingenious flipping about of scenery...
...traces with mock profundity the awful and mysterious path of solids and liquids through the system. As a running fire to this weighty discourse anecdotes of the great at table pop like champagne corks, snap like crunched marrow bones. There is rare eating and rich reading here...
...feared that the meagre details in the reports form sufficient identifying evidence to make certain Freshmen the objects of public pillory. The fact that a man is out for crew or for the Dean's List, commendable as it may be, is hardly rare enough to ensure popular fame. Nor can the publication of such criticisms go far toward breaking down any spirit of confidence which may be necessary to the functioning of the system. Had the facts been of a confessional nature, revealing characteristics hidden from the sight of all except the privileged advisor, the case would be different...