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...fortunately was soft enough to enable every singer to be heard clearly. All in all Candide is truly an ensemble performance, featuring an excellent chorts which shows the cruelty of this fallen world in its numerous appearances as citizen of various towns. Though Candide itself presents a rather sober vision of humanity this production represents the best of Harvard theater with its magnificent execution and wonderous gathering of some of the best undergraduate talent around. Everyone in the cast rises to Pangloss message that one can always strive for the best...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: The Best of All... | 5/3/1985 | See Source »

...even in baseball fans will be upset that the actions of a few will have taken away their ability to sip a couple of beers at the park while still remaining sober...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Take It Out of the Ballpark | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

...colonial times everyone had to "wean modest and sober habit." "Strange ruffian like new langled fashions," including gold and silver were strictly prohibited...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Wear Thy Cloake, and Cut Thy Hair Go Ye Not to Harvard Square | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

With all that translating, praying and donning of sober habit, students during Harvard's second century had little time for merriment. Fortunately, it was prohibited...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Wear Thy Cloake, and Cut Thy Hair Go Ye Not to Harvard Square | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

...some Washington press watchers, the man and the magazine seemed to have little in common. Shelby Coffey III made his name at the Washington Post as editor of the paper's Style section, noted for its trenchant, sometimes biting features. U.S. News & World Report, by contrast, has been a sober, conservative weekly that prides itself on a straightforward approach to events. But to Mortimer Zuckerman, the wealthy real estate investor who bought the magazine last June for $182 million, Coffey is "an ace and a treasure-house of ideas." Last week Zuckerman named Coffey, 38, as the new editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Position Filled: A new editor at U.S. NEWS | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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