Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be surmised from the title--"Texas, Li'l Darlin'"--and the foregoing commentary, the plot makes no noticeable effort to avoid the cliches apparently inherent in a Texas theme. Though I do not share in the anti-Texas feeling one hears frequently voiced, it does seem that a whole evening devoted to variations on this single theme is too much to ask of anyone. All of the other rural jokes are there, too: the Scars, Roebuck catalogue, the outhouses are good for two laughs, and so on. Several of the lines are of questionable taste, and one remark goes...
With a surplus of $30,000, it would seem that Harvard's private socialized medicine system, theoretically run for the health of the students, could see to it that the food of Stillman Infirmary is up to a standard at least equal to that of the rest of the University. Only then should questions such as fees for off-hour visits, be considered. Andreas F. Lowenfeld...
...contemporary life," and perhaps change their curricula accordingly. The "older and more firmly established" colleges had been slow to do so. "I can see no justification," said he, "for allowing the newer and frankly experimental colleges to take the initiative in making the investigations and the trials which may seem to be called...
...done. Even though Britten and Pears have sung and played virtually the same program all over Europe in the past few years, they had to make sure they had all of their music. Britten forgets it as soon as he writes it. He confesses with a crinkly smile: "I seem to have the kind of mind that gives everything out and keeps nothing in. Amazing as it seems, I can't play my own music without the score...
...cantata St. Nicolas for tenor, mixed voices, string orchestra, piano and percussion, and preside over a production of his opera Albert Herring. Although he has conducted some performances of his English Opera Group in the last two years, he still feels uneasy with a baton. "I never seem to know whether to move my arms to the right or left, or up or down . . ." But he was happy about going west: "The audience out there seems rather enthusiastic about my work...