Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Another public meeting is scheduled for Monday evening to resolve specifically what sort of paper the Mole should be and to decide exactly what additional projects the paper should sponsor. The location of the general meeting has not yet been chosen...
This year each member of the Class of '74 received instead an advance copy of the year's first Lampoon. Some sort of cruel joke, surely...
...Advice-On-How-To-Succeed-At-Harvard" satire is tired; the Ibis piece is pointless as usual (I just hope it's some sort of in-joke). I'd be convinced this later genre is innately sterile except for a truly charming example Kaplan produced last Spring. At the risk of seeming anal, let me point out that a feature composed of fake postcards ostensibly meant to trick freshmen into sending their radical intentions to various bad guys of the right has the addresses on the wrong side when you flip the page...
...jacket design of the album is calculated to appeal to the believer in ghosts and seances and such. The front shows a sort of slimy, ectoplasmic quill pen writing music, and the back has a "quote" from Sir Donald Tovey about composers who "have shuffled off these mortal coils." This remarkably florid pseudo-Shakesperianism was allegedly transmitted last January by Sir Donald from beyond the grave. Tovey was never a great stylist, but even he never sank that...
...third Liebestraum. Humphrey Searle comments on the comparison that Mrs. Brown's product is so much like Liszt's that it must be authentic. And so it is. It is in fact almost a direct copy, with slight changes in time signature and some minor details. In short, the sort of thing a somewhat untalented musician might come up with when assigned to imitate Liszt's style...