Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program by their personality, or something we saw in them that hinted they might profit more than someone else from attending school outside their home town. Obviously this was a very subjective judgment but we had set a minimal objective criteria based on grades, class standing, and test scores. However, a large number of those taking the test at this project had never taken an objective test before. The average score on one of these tests was almost one-half of our cut-off score. Most of the 12th grade students that attended this project had not traveled more than...
Perhaps Clive Barnes, the New York Times critic, states the ambivalence of Hair's score the best. In his various pieces about the show (It has opened three times, twice off-Broadway and, most recently, on Broadway last March), Barnes has said, "This is pop-pop, or commercial pop, with little aspirations to art--2 clever dilution of ... pop music. Fundamentally, it is pure Broadway--but Broadway 1969 rather than Broadway 1949. . . . It's noisy and cheerful conservatism is just right for an audience that might wince at Sgt. Pepper...
Your Own Thing, the off-Broadway version of Twelfth Night that won the New York Drama Critics' Award for best musical last year, is never equal to Hair, even when Hair is at its worst. The score (by Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar) makes every concession to Broadway and very few to rock. The music is all pre-Beatles rock-and-roll; some of the songs are just waiting for Leslie Gore and Connie Francis...
...Crimson is a much different team from what it was when it lost to the Big Red, 8-4, in the first meeting. Terry Flaman has returned to action, bolstering an uncertain defensive corps and freeing George McManama for offensive play. The two veteran lines have started to score, taking the pressure off the sophomore line...
...report, prepared in consultation with 150 first-year students, says "the old system has reached the point of diminishing returns...It encourages us to compete, to score points on each other, rather than to communicate and work in cooperation with one another...