Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playgoers may be fascinated to watch its serious and its stagy elements fighting all evening for the upper hand, and ending in a draw...
...make clothes look shapeless and still wears high-laced black shoes. His only son, Byron Halsted Waksman (30, and an M.D.), is on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Waksman and his wife often go to concerts in New York (Mrs. Waksman likes the more serious works; he likes "musical music...
Randall stated that he did not feel that the riot was too serious, and that it could have been a good deal worse. "The reason it didn't get more out of hand," he said, "was that the Harvard boys we spoke to were pretty cooperative. I don't feel, however, that the Princeton students cooperated at all well...
Before the intermission the two clubs sang serious songs. It was here that the Princetons showed their failings the most. The general impression ereated was that they needed rehearsing--their faces were buried in their scores and they consequently didn't watch Mr. Knapp, their conductor. The unfortunate result was that as a section fell behind on the beat it made the rest of the club go flat despite the piano accompaniment. When they sang folk songs and spiritual afterwards without music, however, this failing largely vanished...
Great credit is due to William F. Russell 3G, who is conducting the Harvard Glee Club while Professor G. Wallace Woodworth is on his sabbatical. The Glee Club began the concert with its serious songs sung adequately but without spirit. When they moved to the second part of the program, however, they began to enjoy themselves and their singing showed it. "Gandeamus," College Medley was easily the high point of the evening as far as enthusiasm, tone, and vocal excellence was concerned. Two solos, a trio, and a quartet were mixed into the ensemble in this number, and the piece...