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Operating against Phillips is the Council tradition of not electing a sophomore as President. To offset this, Phillips cited his two years of experience on the Council, and his record as co-chairman of the Combined Charities and Chairman of the Dining Halls Committee...
Against the shrewdly calculated corn of Harry Golden's For 2$ Plain and the old wives' appeal of Dr. D. C. Jarvis' Folk Medicine, there can be set Garrett Mattingly's The Armada, a rare, readable example of historical scholarship. To offset The Stolen Years, which cashes in on headlines about the recent murder of Prohibition Gangster Roger Touhy, and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers, a flight of amateur and secondhand sociology, there is a vivid re-creation of D-day in Cornelius Ryan's The Longest...
Created to offset the crucial shortage of teachers, the Foundation, initiated by a grant from the Ford Foundation, annually awards approximately 1,000 scholarships...
...Crimson has three excellent foil men in Dave Johnson, the captain, Larry Johnson, and Phil Charat--men whom Marion judges more than competent to offset Gardner's absence...
...winds performing the Stravinsky and the strings showing their stuff on an arrangement of Bach's Ricecar a 6 from the Musical Offering. The main virtue of this arrangement was that it provided an effective showcase for the shining string tone the orchestra has developed. This was unfortunately offset by a thickness which often obscured the contrapuntal writing in favor of a rich sound, and an occasional slickness and unfaithfulness to style. While avoiding the purists' contention that nothing of Bach's should be performed in an arrangement--after all, Bach did his share of arranging--it should nevertheless sound...