Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the last Anderson play, Treason at West Point, Prince Erie is vaguely historical. Probably that is the only point of comparison. Treason, produced at the Loeb two years ago, met with a blast of hostile critical wind. Some people even speculated that the Loeb administration, learning a quick lesson from Treason's fate, would avoid producing this year's Anderson play...
...Harvard harriers wind up their season with a 6-3 dual meet record. But by whipping Providence, Brown, and Northeastern today, they finish the year by beating every team that had beaten them...
...forgotten it. He turned vaguely to one of his aides, and then realizing where it was, stepped briskly back through the door to retrieve the coat himself. Leaving for Quincy House, he walked, crisp and business-like to a waiting car, his sleekly combed hair unruffled by the sharp wind overhead...
...leaves an ambiguous impression: it is never clear whether it is a chamber group, a small symphony orchestra, or simply a label under which disparate musical activities take place. The first half of last Saturday's concert ranged from Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture to the same composer's Wind Octet, Opus 103. Conductor Daniel Hathaway kept the orchestra precisely together throughout Coriolanus, but many of the opportunities for playing back and forth between parts were muffed. He might have had better luck at a faster tempo. However, the orchestra's total sound was impressively rich, exceeding what I would have...
Irrational Behavior. Santa Ana-like phenomena are not confined to Southern California. Similar hot, dry wind sweeping down mountain slopes is called "foehn" (pronounced, approximately, fain) in Austria and Germany, "chinook" along the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, "sky sweeper" on Majorca, "khamsin" in Israel, and "the Canterbury northwester" in New Zealand...