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Faced with this new demand, architects find themselves confronted with an age-old problem. The oldest solution to building an ideal structure for listening still seems the best; the ancient Greek and Roman amphitheaters were often acoustically so good that a sigh on stage carried to the farthest row. How to get the same characteristics under a roof and still make room for 100-piece orchestras, huge choral groups and whole opera companies with their oversize sets, ballet corps and costume designers is testing anew the ingenuity of the present generation of architects. Among their solutions...
With a feeling of happy anticipation and a sigh of relief I read in yesterday's CRIMSON, "Coming soon! The CRIMSON Telephone Directory." I admit it. I have been beaten. What small amount of sales resistance was present at the beginning of the term has long since vanished. It cracked each time I pored through the Boston Directory only to find that the phone was listed in whatever-is-his-roommate's name. It crumbled each time I called Weld Information after hours...
...there, and what really matters is Schnabel's playing. To hear him is suddenly to see light across the generations that separate the composer from today; to be delighted at Schnabel's surprising methods of treating Beethoven's surprising turns of phrase; to laugh or sigh, sometimes almost to cower in fright. This playing has the kind of sanity that is expressed in one of Schnabel's provocative remarks. "Back around the turn of the century," he once said, "it became the idea that Beethoven's opening theme in the Fifth Symphony was fate knocking...
...After Ike's blue-ribbon endorsement (the warmest of the campaign to date), things looked somewhat brighter for Jim Duff, who has never yet lost an election. Republican headquarters in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh reported a surge of financial contributions and volunteer workers. State Chairman Bloom heaved an audible sigh of relief about the improved state prospects. But some of the Grundy boys were still following after their oldtime leader (1904-21), Boies Penrose, who believed firmly in the precept that when it came "to deciding between losing an election and losing control of the party, lose the election." Unless...
...historic Sintra and going for a ride in his speedboat, is so enraptured that she offers Rains $1,000,000 to deliver her husband dead so that she can inherit his vast fortune and buy Ray a new boat. And spirited Yvonne keeps sneaking out of the seraglio to sigh against Ray's shoulder and warn him to be careful. Ray has scarcely time left over to retrieve the missing husband, dispose of Badman Lederer, spurn Maureen, see Rains led off to jail, and walk into the blue dawn with lovely, cat-eyed Yvonne...