Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preparatory school graduates and sons of alumni had the greatest likelihood of going on probation for academic reasons, the Dean's report continued. Four per cent of the prep school graduates had their connection severed, double the figure for public school students. While alumni sons comprise only 20 percent of...
"There were a lot of things to learn in becoming a House Master and wife. We found that Mozart piped into the living room had a deadening influence. The musicians in the group just listened intently and the others found the atmosphere heavy going. Now we've settled on Bix...
The Master's situation is an extreme one, however. Few other wives of the Faculty have so thorough a connection with the college. Mrs. Fainsod, for example, has found time to hold a job of her own for almost twenty years. Currently working on a history of the Eliot Administration...
The first two acts of the play--before the audience learns of Osvald Alving's disease--are like a drawing room comedy, only with little humor. Even if the cast were superb, all that could hold the audience's attention is the pomposity of Parson Manders' (spiritual advisor to Mrs...
But as played by the Lowell Dramatic Group, Ghosts is almost vapid. The actors appear to observe the characters from the outside, often reciting lines as if they were participating in a first or second rehearsal. Each has a few good moments, each delivers occasional lines with gratifying conviction, but...