Word: pleasingness
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Hearing through channels that the HDC had labored throughout the week revamping its musical revue, I returned last night to Great to Be Back! It was one of my wiser decisions. The truly atrocious spots which earlier had marked the production have been shuffled off the stage: the opening half...
*Also an admirer of the serpentine wall was another President, Thomas Jefferson. After seeing "ribbon walls" in England, Jefferson reproduced them at the University of Virginia because they were 1) esthetically pleasing, and 2) structurally stronger than straight walls of the same width.
ROUGH WINDS OF MAY, by Nancy Hallinan (425 pp.; Harper; $3.95), is a first novel that leaps like a trout with lust for life. A canny angler, Novelist Hallinan, 34, uses enough bait for three regulation novels: 1) the English family, full of cooings, cluckings, crises and crumpets, 2) the...
Yale's veteran basketball coach, Howard Hobson, yesterday advocated a radical revision in the colleges' basketball rules. Speaking before the National Association of Coaches in Kansas City, Hobson said the colleges should follow "public-pleasing" pro rules in 1956.
"The pros have a better game, aimed at pleasing the public," Hobson said. "Colleges also attempt to give the customers a satisfactory game, so why not follow the pros?"