Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a bang and a burst of bravos-and as opera unashamed. Composer Blitzstein had trimmed down the spoken dialogue in his libretto, tightened up the orchestration, and included three musical episodes which were dropped in the pre-Broadway tryouts of the old production. The result still showed a slight tendency to be musically episodic, but the opera more than made up for this with its sharp scoring for a set of characters more real and gutty than most modern opera can lay claim...
Crimson sailors are rated a slight favorite in the second annual M.I.T. Quadrangular to be held on the Charles River Basin this afternoon...
Tennis: Lowell is rated slight favorite over Leverett and Dudley in a strict three-team race. The Bellboys boast two sophomore Ecuadorians, Maurice Toro and Hernando Franco, as well as Bob Zock, who is currently ranked 14th in the College. The Hutch was up in tennis last year, and has undefeated Dick Myers back again to keep it there this year. Dudley, low last year, expects to have general, all-around improvement...
...Lili. A slight but charming cinemusical about an orphan girl, a young magician and a romantic puppeteer; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...
...Freedom controversy has been so unfairly and incompletely reported that we would like to make it clear. Contrary to the CRIMSON article of Tuesday, March 24, the HLU has as yet taken no part in the organization or deliberations of the Combined University Students' Committee. Further, the CRIMSON's slight misquotation of our statement Wednesday left it extremely ambiguous. The Liberal Union is unalterably opposed to all Congressional investigations in academic life, believing it the sole responsibility of the universities to determine who shall teach and what shall be taught...