Word: successful
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...premier hub with a shoddy means of communication would attract the vultures (the richest members of the swamp, of whom many had once belonged to the hub), who would be appalled into refurbishing the system. It was a plan the turtle had used many times in the past, with success, but this time, the vultures were simply appalled and decided instead to invest in carrion futures. And the group dissolved. Out of ire and frustration, pupils left the turtle's warm beds and hot tea to seek out other hubs of discussion. Somewhere south, a bulldog had founded...
...enormous success of the cantata series started as a grassroots student endeavor. Craig Smith took over as music director at Emmanuel in 1970, while still a piano student under Russell Sherman at the New England Conservatory. The church's choir director became ill and Smith was asked to temporarily fill in. He notes, "I sort of started one week and never stopped." At the beginning of his tenure, Smith decided to incorporate the performance of Bach's cantatas, which he loved passionately, into the liturgy...
...production of Gilbert and Sullivan has, perhaps, fewer grades of success than other forms of performance. It works or it fails to, and if it fails, the degree to which it does doesn't really matter: however much, we're annoyed, or just bored. Within this genre, a successful show is immediately apparent, and within this model, "The Pirates of Penzance"--as produced by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan players--is a triumphant success. The audience is entertained before it has a chance to be anything else: the orchestra is in tune, the actors are loud, clear and funny...
...production's success begins, as one would expect, with Catherine Ingman's stage direction. A constant, careful and oftentimes outrageous choreography of cast members supplements the humor of the script. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert's wit is very much couched in wordplay and innuendo, and Ingman creates--in effeminate prancing, mock-stealthy stalking and slapstick combat--a physical counterpart to the clever turns of phrases. While such physical comedy can compromise itself with too much zeal or too little precision, this seldom happens. The actors seem to understand the appropriate bounds for their movements and the script is never upstaged...
...Harvard students nervous that the nation's third-ranked university does not offer a degree in journalism, panelists said neither an undergraduate nor graduate degree in journalism is necessary for success...