Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard Square tavern owners and bartenders expected slight effect on business from yesterday's Senate vote to enact a bill providing fines of $10 to $100 for minors who purchase alcoholic beverages. One prominent tavern owner said that although some minors might be discouraged from purchasing drinks, "lax police enforcement" would lessen the bill's effect...
...keys; his runs contained generous coloring, yet were without excessive pianistic mannerisms. Freeman's use of rubato may be circumspect to some, but it certainly never passed the bound of good taste. A particularly delightful detail was his articulation of the finale's main theme. Because of his slight stress on the last note of the motive, its repeated rhythm could never even approach monotony. The orchestra provided superb accompaniment, and their many incidental solos showed a polish to match the pianist's. There could have been few better manifestations of the growing integration that can, in time, produce...
Childs, a member of the Board of Directors of WHRB, caused a slight stir when he showed in his WHRB polo shirt. A newcomer to the track world, Childs entered the Marathon because he thought it was the "last stronghold of heroism left in America." He also said he liked to watch the crowds and the scenery along the route...
...office worker popped out. Everyone laughed from sheer nervousness. At 4:25 the door opened once more and out stepped Winston Churchill, in striped pants, frock coat and topper. There was a sparse cheer or two, then suddenly the street rocked with three huge, earsplitting cheers of acclaim. A slight, sad smile crinkled the Churchillian features for a moment. Then, clamping firmly on his cigar, the Prime Minister climbed into his car and headed for Buckingham Palace...
...more careful arrangement of the sculpture would have shown the pieces off to better advantage. Susan Chamber's "Gulls Coming to Field" gets lost in a corner. The problem is circumvented by No.66, "Fish Feeding." A slight push starts the fancifully whiskered fish in rotation. Franz Deughausen seems to have drawn inspiration from mobile-maker Alexander Calder. "Adagio," a piece by Elizabeth McLean Smith, is equally alive in a different way: the body of the dancer is taut and convincing through the folds of a long dress which painfully inhibit her motion...