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...Cavanagh who was instrumental in putting the Crimson into the national championships. In the ECAC semi-finals he registered a hat trick to pace the Crimson to an 8-6 come-from-behind win over Clarkson to qualify for the trip to Colorado...
...Committee proposed the establishment of a "semi-formal" group of student advisors, which also could be able to offer suggestions for curriculum change on a permanent basis...
...Prés, Vian was generally considered the prince of the enfants terribles of French existentialism. His death in 1959 at the age of 38 was sudden, but it could hardly be called unexpected. While he was alive, the only one of his books that sold was a semi-pornographic novel that he'd written for a bet under a pseudonym; his most successful song, "Le Désérteur" (made popular in the States by Peter, Paul and Mary) was banned in France for its frank anti-war message. As a rule the critics treated him with amused...
...medical researchers produce certainly save more lives. But they also gobble more dollars in the process. And the other major component of the hospital cost increase--higher wages for cooks, janitors, and the other prosaic workers who help care for the patients -- helped solve another obvious social need. The semi-sweatshop laber practices of the 1950's hospitals had to end; unfortunately, ending them meant hiking hospital charges another step...
...presented realistically, with sets, costumes and actions designed so that the audience could "feel a good aromatic inhalation of Vienna" at the time of Empress Maria Theresa. Merrill's Turandot was stylized in the sparse formal motions of the ice-cold princess and her hapless suitors. Against these semi-tableaux, there was a flurry of action provided by the counterpoint clowning of Ping, Pang and Pong. One of Merrill's finest productions, Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, was mounted as a fantasy; it captured the magic of the evil nurse, the semi-spirit world of the empress...