Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern architecture may look good on a college campus, but alumni seldom think so. They want the new buildings they finance to look just like the old ones for sentiment as well as for the sake of architectural harmony. Florida's University of Miami is trying to solve the architectural problem by a clean break with its not-so-distant (1925) past: it is building an all-modern school on a new campus...
...four business suits, a suit of dinner clothes, two summer suits, two sport jackets, an overcoat, topcoat and raincoat-and you picked them out yourself; your wife seldom if ever shops for your clothes with you. You also own 21 shirts, six pairs of shoes, three hats and 31 ties (but you like only 13 of them). You prefer four-in-hands 10 to 1 over bows...
...last winter the "beautiful she-pupils" of Vassar enjoyed the teachings of an exchange professor, Dr. Jorge Costa Neves, of the University of Brazil. So stimulating were his courses in the Portuguese language and Brazilian civilization that Vassar's president, tart Sarah Blanding, seldom missed a lecture herself. Now back in Rio for a year before returning to Vassar, able Jorge Costa loves to expound on how the U.S. looks to a Brazilian...
Gustav Mahler's massive Eighth Symphony is something like Texas-big as all get-out, very impressive in spots, and full of flat and windy stretches. It requires so huge a cast that it has seldom been performed in the U.S. (the last time was in 1942). Last week, in Hollywood's huge open-air Bowl, Conductor Eugene Ormandy roamed over it with an orchestra of 120, including an organ, two harps and a mandolin; two choruses of 350 each; a boy's choir of 100; seven vocal soloists and a separate band of eight trumpets...
...reasonably interesting and sometimes exciting. Ray Milland is helpful in hinting the honesties which no tongue dares to utter. Leo G. Carroll plays Nemesis so well as to make one wish he'd get a chance to play something else. And Geraldine Fitzgerald, who is seen much too seldom, does a fresh and welcome job as the pathetic, unstable old friend whom Miss Todd reluctantly exploits...