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Kirkland House attempted Jonson bawdiness and Elizabethan slapstick with vigor--and was rewarded with applause. The opening night was a victory...
...nation's technological superiority and economic vigor, America has erected a presumptuous, and, for herself, dangerous pedestal. We have come magnanimously to admit the possibility of others being almost as good as ourselves, or even just as good, but none better, at least scientifically and materially. From that pedestal the country now sees another structure rising in the distance, and, in a babel of hope and fear, rushes to build her own even higher...
...tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands . . . or their slaves or male attendants who lack vigor, or children who know naught of women's nakedness...
...support throughout. Except for some bad moments at the violin entrance, resulting from the fast tempo taken in the ritornello, Poto followed the soloist with amazing precision. While the orchestra did not play with as much expressiveness, rhythmic drive, and intensity as it might have, it at least supplied vigor and accuracy. The winds lapsed into insecure entrances and poor intonation at the beginning of the second movement, but their solos were generally good, especially those of oboist Michael Palmer. Miss Martzy received an immediate standing ovation at the end--a rare event in Sanders...
...recent years, the Puritan conscience of the College has tried to make up for the first mistake of one of its graduates by de-emphasizing the game. This is a Good Thing. However, the ticket business has just become more and more Evil, creeping in to undermine the healthy vigor of intellectual life. Fine young men who would otherwise be studious and Good now spend much of their time trying to get a date at least ten days before each game and the rest trying to remember that ticket applications are due "before 5 P.M., Wednesday." For those who fail...