Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Dramatic Club production unhappily only suggests something of the beauty of this play, and not very often at that. There are no villains who must accept the blame for the lack of unqualified success. With two or three exceptions, the general level of competence and experience is just not high enough to do Chekov's work justice. But the production is not total failure, either, because two of the performers--Barbara Blanchard and Thomas Teal--are good enough to support it while they are on stage...
...success of long-term loans at low rates in use today indicates that such a plan would work, asserted Harris. "M.I.T. has a terrific loan plan, with only one per cent default in 25 years," he pointed out. The Business School's program, which depends "on moral obligation," is another instance of such a plan's effectiveness, Harris said. The system, he maintained, should prove to be "the most effective way of getting tuition...
...organization has sent out letters to member clubs throughout the country discussing the new policies. "It will be impossible to estimate the success of the letters until spring, when local fund raising becomes more intensive," Dean emphasized...
Then as now, the Met was not an adventurous house: it depended on its unparalleled roster of singers, and while for years it attempted more new works than it does today, most of them met with little immediate success. When it launched La Bohème (with Melba) in 1900, Henry Krehbiel, in the New York Tribune, roundly panned the new opera: "[It] is foul in subject, and fulminant but futile in its music...
...profession Columnist Joseph Wright Alsop Jr. is a distinct success. From his column, "Matter of Fact," which appears four times weekly in the New York Herald Tribune and is syndicated in 200 newspapers here and abroad, and from the books and other articles he writes, he receives an income handsome enough to surround himself with the trappings of the luxurious life. These include suits faultlessly hand-tailored on London's Savile Row, and what he calls the "excessive comfort" of a plush bachelor's house on Dumbarton Avenue in Washington's Georgetown. He is respected...