Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this stage, Harvard can reject those Harvard sons who "don't measure up" in good conscience, hoping that an alumnus will not take the blow too severely. But Harvard sons are going to apply in increasing numbers, and they will be smart and well-prepared. How does an admissions Committee which "gives the benefit of the doubt" now turn down alumni sons in the future, not on the basis that they are not good enough, but that someone else is better or more deserving...
...disappointed. Victor Ziskin and Thomas Beveridge (particularly Mr. Beveridge) have worked rather in the manner of the film composer: a few bars to concentrate the atmosphere during a silence, music for the dances and circus performances Mr. Kopit has thoughtfully provided; low-volume impressionistic reveries while somebody on the stage soliloquizes...
...logic was well taken that described the drift of a student representative from the stage of realizing his fellows' indifference toward his service to that of irresponsible, self-centered action. Yet I wonder whether this reasoning was not carried too far and applied too broadly. To say that the responsible representative is a rare bird takes too little account, I think, of several important factors: First, there is no single group of "representatives;" a student who leads in one activity follows in most of the rest, and so never loses the sense of membership in the community. Secondly, and more...
...voice registers two distinctly different tones. When he reminisces about his life, or discusses the historical aspect of folk music, it is matter-of-fact. But whenever he talks of his concern for peace and understanding, or his faith in mankind, he seems to project himself onto the concert stage: his voice becomes resonant and sincere. He is like a universal lover pleading with the world to 'believe in me, for I speak the truth...
Though the program was originally planned as a forum including two faculty members, explained Eliot D. Bernat '60, President of the sponsoring Harvard Eisenhower Club, all those who were asked declined for lack of time, information, interest, or desire to go on the stage with "crackpots...