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...search for a solution, the Band may have gone astray. The Administration has offered financial relief: Dean Watson granted free date tickets for football games and said the Administration might try to finance such things as meals and uniforms. This thinly-disguised bribery seemed to satisfy the Band; it should not have. With financial support comes administrative control, and it is no lack of money that menaces the members of the Band. It is something far more serious--the loss of their precious freedom to act their...
...admit to an occasional musical ray of light," said the Wiener Zeitung. "But essentially the work is dominated by that barrenness which has become a sign of progress but which is in reality a going-astray." Almost as if its critic had been in a different concert hall, the Kronen Zeitung reported that "seldom have the beauties of a score of this century been so visible, seldom has the genius of a master been so worthy of admiration as in the present case...
...inevitability of death for Polish heroes as interpreted by Andrzej Wajda, who also directed this film. The insurrectionist leader (Wieczyslaw Glinski) pokes his grimy head through a manhole, headed toward freedom. But when he hears from his sergeant that the men he thought were close behind have gone astray, he kills the sergeant as a betrayer and slowly descends once more into the offal that seals his doom...
...even more numerous. Matthew's account of Pilate's altercation with the Jews is given overtones of "Mrs. Murphy's Chowder": "Why, what harm has he done?" Pilate asked; but they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!" The sayings of Jesus become jingles ("If your right eye leads you astray...
They were still in the game, that is, until a pass under the basket went astray, and Brown took the ball and the ball game. Borchard got the final two Crimson points after Gene Barth's two fouls had made the score...