Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lacked some of the vocal finesse that this role could use, but his acting was very funny. Alison Keith was again Gilbert's answer to Medea, (this time as Katisha); again struggling through the songs and plunging through the hamming like an old pro. Joan Rosenstock contributed some more pleasant singing, and William Jacobson and Merry Isaacs rounded out the cast of principals. George Nelson and Barrie Wetstone handled the piano score ably, and musical director Burton Dudding kept everything going nicely...
...Mikado, although it lacks the moments of brilliance of some of the other collaborations, is nevertheless a pleasant piece with probably more famous songs than any except Pinafore. The traditional production always gets a certain number of standard extra-curricular laughs out of the action accompanying the more ludicrous songs. But this performance is an unmitigated howl from beginning to end, thanks mainly to the imaginative direction of Julius Novick and two devastating performances by David Stone and Steve Garlick...
Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, agreed that graduate students "would be a pleasant addition," but doubted that any could be accomodated next year. "Too many students have already asked for deconversion," Perkins stated, "to permit graduate students into the House...
...case like the steel strike, it is very pleasant to assume a lofty attitude and say a plague on both your houses. Unfortunately, the issues are national in scope and nobody has the right not to take a stand on them. And you cannot be against inflation and featherbedding and then fail to support the companies if their position is based on opposition to these things...
Colby roiled in confusion when Connecticut-born Philosopher Bixler arrived in 1942, after teaching at Harvard Divinity School. Founded in 1813, Colby had opened on a pleasant site between the quiet Kennebec River and a country road. A century later, the campus lay suffocating between smelly paper mills and a clanking railroad...