Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Monro, the do-gooder and the administrator, may suffer because of the paradox. To some he often seems to strain under the shackles of his position. One member of the Harvard Policy Committee, on which Monro sits as one of five Faculty members, left after a year of informal contact with the dean convinced that he had had his share of utopian educational ideas. "I got the feeling that without the constraints of being Harvard's dean, he pursue a radical education...
...Pianist Peter Serkin, musical nirvana is being scrooched up in a recording studio retaping and re-retaping portions of some concerto. Like Glenn Gould, Serkin, 19, is one of the new strain of virtuosos who play beautiful music but in few other ways resemble the traditional concert soloist. He is totally indifferent to audiences, abhors the personality cult, is convinced that performers get in the way of the music, and that the only way to play is in the quiet privacy of the recording studio, where perfection is the only reality. "Listening to music," he says, "should be the most...
...problem is mostly one of simple technique. The director and cast have overlooked a few of the basics. With the exception of Miss Barringer, none of the major characters projects his voice. Instead they strain. As a result everyone has a burr in his voice, and the cumulative hoarseness is annoying. Sansone's falsetto "boop-boop's" are a refreshingly clear contrast to the rusty voice of Badger, Bill Sinkford. But a "boop-boop" only lasts a second...
...parties, and Tom Jones as the wronged husband James are quick, polished, and properly above the sense and nonsense of what they are saying. At the very end of the play, however, Jones sinks into a too perceptive, responsive state. Both have passable accents; neither appears to strain to preserve it. I don't think Arthur Friedman looks like the forty-year-old man called for in the strip. This distorts his relation to Bill, a man in his twenties who rose from the lower classes by Harry's grace. The last member of the company, Sheila Hart, does...
Last fall, several law students protested the sole use of class rank in selecting members of honorary activities such as the Harvard Law Review and the Legal Aid Society. Since such membership often aids in obtaining choice employment offers, the protestors claimed that it added greatly to the strain on law students...