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After graduating from Harvard, Simonson became a set designer for the Theatre Guild and the Metropolitan Opera. As a student he prepared for a career in architecture and consequently has done considerable work in the actual designing of theatres, principally in the West and Mid-West...
...opera which Gertrude S. and Virgil T. produced was considerably more coherent than Four Saints in theme and form. The music is a distillation of rural American harmony--Mid-West gospel hymns, old English ballads brought by settlers, and corn-husking and square dance themes. This rural middle class tone, as opposed to the urban, low-class music of jazz and other contemporary American opera, makes the work distinctive. In its new lyric quality is a dissonance and irony which Four Saints, in all its tour de force, does not capture...
...variation of the plan is currently being used at Kenyon, and is being considered at Colgate, Illinois, and Wisconsin, Harding added. "The program is definitely popular in the mid-West," he said, "but the only drawback is finance...
John Glover of Dartmouth and Yale's Rex Aubrey, Kerry Donovan, and Sandy Gideonse will control the 50 and 100 free style events, with the Mid-West's only apparent opposition being Ron Gora of Michigan. Dyer, Edwards, Gus Johnson, Lind, Pete Macky, and Stu Ogden will enter for the Crimson, with Jorgensen being a possible extra if his temporary illness keeps him from...
Several groups of American students from the mid-west have visited the Soviet Union during the past two summers on tours hardly of the Thomas Cook variety. But despite the restrictions which the Soviets imposed on these trips, the U.S. students felt they had at least made contact, even if they could not erase distorted views of American life. These visitors reported that the Soviets denied any knowledge of an Iron Curtain, saying, "You are here, and Russian students cannot get into the United States...