Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor Greg was an old hand at departmental politics, but he was also a great scholar. About to die, Greg decided to play a splendid little joke on the "academic community." The story, which carries a subtle overtone of Shavian irony, took place at a fictional university, but the characters are familiar: the smooth and politic department chairman, the impressive "Great Ideas" lecturer with little scholarship in his background, the pale, imitative young instructor. Perhaps the tale is not entirely uninteresting to officers and students of Harvard University...
...selection of Primitive Art now at the Museum of Fine Arts is an especially fine one. The pieces represented span the work of North American Indians to the splendid cultures of the southern continent, from the gods of Africa to the fetishes of Oceania...
...fine rhythmic sense. He elicits from his lute a wide variety of timbres and articulations, and phrases carefully--virtues he shares with Segovia, his teacher. Originally a pianist, he now divides his time between the lute and the guitar. It is only a shame that such a splendid artist cannot devote his full time to each...
Particularly noteworthy is the Eliot Drama Group, formed in the spring of 1954. From its debut the next fall up to date, the EDG has provided a splendid series of intimate semi-arena productions devoted almost exclusively to the works of Shakespeare...
...does the General offer grandilo-quent policy of splendid isolation and shrill pretensions; the modern world requires cooperation between France and her European neighbors on the one hand, and France and the underdeveloped countries of her former Empire on the other...