Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation was similar at Yale, until this fall. Two seniors quit the Yale Daily News to begin publishing The New Journal, a bi-weekly blend of solid reporting, lively literary criticism, fiction and photography. The writing is consistently good and often superb; everything from book reviewing to reporting on the Pentagon demonstration is approached from a fresh angle...
...former Harvard visual studies student wrote Andrews after seeing the college: "I was incredibly turned-on by your building. . . . What was really great about the buildings from the outside was that the whole time it felt like you were standing next to a real solid building . . . the shapes, angles, views, and turns never seems to dissolve into the gimmicky, tricky, inconsiderate, and condescending thing that seems to be the special danger of original or thought-out architecture...
...dancing in Anything Goes is phenomenal. Some of the actors can't stop dancing even when the music ends. They float across the stage when they should walk, but they float so damn well, and so fast, that the trick is turned. And since the show is musically solid from "You're the Top" to "Take Me Back to Manhattan," all complaints have got to be qualified, if not out of existence, then temporarily out of sight...
Musically, one performance is a knockout. Shannon Scarry, as a gangster's moll hasn't got a great deal of voice, but she uses her limitations to good comic effect when she sings, and when she dances she doesn't have any limitations. There's also one solid comic performance, by Richard Rockefeller, who plays the broad Englishman like he should never play anything else...
...recently announced an executive change of its own. President Robert Reneker, 55, becomes sole chief executive on Dec. 1 when Board Chairman Porter M. Jarvis retires, taking his title with him. Reneker made his reputation in sales and is the first man to reach the top spot without a solid grounding in meat operations-which suggests that the company, having branched into such nonfood items as chemicals and insurance, plans further diversification. Admittedly curious about rumors of Simon's interest in his company, Reneker claims that he does not plan to let Swift go the way of other meat...