Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Afternoon performances are notoriously ragged--especially when it rains--and Sanders Theatre certainly isn't the ideal place for a large concert, anyway. I know this, and the above should serve as an apology to the members of the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, whose collective Christmas Concert I attended yesterday afternoon, instead of yesterday evening. But one expects (no doubt quite unreasonably) that any performance of a major work by the top musicians of Harvard will generate a certain amount of excitement; and yesterday's (which didn't) was even at best a disappointment...
...serenade demands a good deal of orchestral versatility. Its seven alternately bustling and doleful movements are among Mozart's most intricately scored. To its great credit, Mr. Lazar's orchestra managed to maintain a perfectly balanced tone throughout, and Mr. Lazar's direction was itself pretty close to ideal. His crisp phrasing and invariably brisk tempt imparted to the music a restrained breathlessness that is all too rarely achieved in university Mozart performances. If the strings were occasion-all troubled by faulty intonation, the tone of the winds was consistently and serenely sonorous...
While the Catholic ideal was-and is-a ship of state in which all acknowledge the One True Church, U.S. Catholics soon realized that the unique U.S. situation gave them unprecedented freedom to grow. In 1884 the Roman Catholic Third Plenary Council of Baltimore declared: "We consider the establishment of our country's independence, the shaping of its liberties and laws, as a work of special Providence, its framers 'building better than they knew,' the Almighty's hand guiding them...
Though trains and dolls are still selling strong, some past Christmas favorites are lading The junior cowboy is riding off into the sunset. With the exception of ideal's hot-selling Astro Base, which simulates a landing on the moon, space-age toys are far out. Not science fiction but science do-it-yourself kits, which may baffle father but delight junior, are now the big sellers. Science Kit Maker A. C. Gilbert says that do-it-yourself kits have jumped from ⅓ to ⅔ of Gilbert's total sales, with sales of astronomy kits alone...
...Machine, made by Ideal, a windup, clear-plastic robot that walks swinging his arms, opening and closing his mouth, emitting a burping siren and ringing a bell. His innards are not only visible but can be taken apart. List price...