Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most vital parts of the program are the big concerted numbers, where brilliant lighting and costumes combine with the drumming and dancing to produce dazzling splashes of color. The other sections naturally act as relief; these generally take the form of lyrical African love songs, of calypso duets with guitars, hardly distinguishable from their Caribbean counterparts. The most interesting of these quiet interludes involves an African lute of liquid sound and astonishing facility called a "cora." The two cora soloists are undoubtedly virtuosos, and they draw from their instruments a phenomenal number of notes during their brief performances...
...first opportunity of the Photo Board is, of course, to fill the cleverly captioned spaces on the front page with ingeniously conceived pictures from almost any part of the University or the city, but everybody gets an opportunity to take portrait-type pictures of visiting and local dignitaries, sports photos, and even pictures for advertisements, according to his taste...
...encouragement of those who feel that the competition will be too stiff, a look at the CRIMSON masthead reveals that graduation will take all but four of the photo-board members at the end of the year. And the photo-board has not cut a candidate within the memory of present editors...
...legal counsel at that time advised that the area in question was under the sole control of the Metropolitan District Commision, even though privately owned and actually included on the Cambridge assessors' map. And opposition in a State House hearing effectively put an end to a bill which would take the property out of MDC control...
Neither of these contentions, whether true or not, is the central issue in the matter. More important is that forty acres of anything--whether factory or dormitory--would take up a lot of space in the Basin, considerably lessening its beauty and value as a recreational facility...