Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sole purpose of providing a platform for freethinkers, nonconformists, exotics and eccentrics. Even so, the guest speaker at the club last week was something out of the ordinary. Introduced as a lecturer on sociology at the University of London, Dr. Mahesh Helai, a learned-looking Turk with a slight beard and sideburns, had chosen as his topic: "The Pleasure of Opium Eating...
Stravinsky took three curtain calls. There were bravos for the tenor. A slight hissing was heard at the rear of the hall. Mostly, though, the audience didn't quite know what to think. "It is mind music," said one musician. An esthete put it precisely: "From the lush, full, rich sound we think of as Stravinsky, you are suddenly in an entirely different world-in a bony world...
Nonetheless, some critics thought they saw a slight shifting of the currents in several of the Whitney's ten galleries. There, the work of more objective artists was on exhibit, and there seemed to be more of it than last year. Among the best: a compassionate scene of two old Bowery bums. Under the El, by Manhattan's Jack Levine; a primitive allegory, Fishers, Simon and Peter, by Manhattan's C. Murray Foster; a biting satire, Tension, by St. Louis' Siegfried Reinhardt, which showed a straining rooster, a bird hanging by its neck, a boy stretching...
...basis of comparative scores, Yale ranks as a slight favorite. While the Crimson lost, 7 to 6, to Dartmouth, the Elis edged the Indians. The only other common opponent was Princeton: the Crimson was defeated by the Tigers, 9 to 0, and Yale lost by an eight-point margin...
Heaman refused to comment on the suggestion that expenses might have been cut by decreasing the number of employees in the Dining Halls. While large cost-of-living wage increases were granted to all employees, the Dining Halls showed a slight $30,000 expenditures...