Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Informed intellectual beauty contest, and how to pick a beau from her two suitors, Dick and Derek, played by Richard Hines and Theodore Lappas. The young swains provided one of the more musically delightful duets of the evening as they pranced through "Why Do You Keep Us On a String...
Temporarily belying its name, the group never-theless chose a program of three masterpieces, all of which were fairly well known but by no means hackneyed. For the G-minor Concerto grosso from Corelli's Opus 6, Senturia used a well-balanced ensemble of seventeen string players plus harpsichord. The group played with guts and gusto, though never forcing the tone. The precision was admirable and the intonation astonishingly accurate. But why, Mr. Senturia, did you decide to omit the final flowing pastorale movement...
...corporations have taken to interviewing wives before hiring or promoting executives, others regularly appraise executive wives by visits to the home or at corporate parties. A few even provide seminars and conferences for wives in an attempt to fashion the ideal executive helpmate. All this has prompted a string of articles, fiction and movies depicting the ideal "Mrs. Executive" -a woman who furthers her husband's career by molding herself into the pattern of corporate living, helping to achieve success by an endless round of professional sociability...
Until that time, the varsity could have tied up the match, for Foster continued his unbeaten string by decisioning Lou Winner...
Yale, meanwhile, though not as impressive in Ivy competition as the Crimson, has at least clinched a tie for second place with a record of 5-1. After losing their league opener to Dartmouth, the Elis have won five straight Ivy games and had a string of six wins going until Army beat them on Wednesday...