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...moment of utmost pessimism one might suppose that the only Harvard basketball tradition is a defeated tradition...
...that matter, believes that the Army National Guard can be built up and maintained by assigning it to a home-guard role in the national-defense system, he has never been more mistaken in his life, and the entire National Guard, Army and Air, will resist to the utmost the imposition of any such concept...
...Utmost. Solid and sure, and cheerful as a cherub, 58-year-old Nurse Haussknecht is on a three-month tour of U.S. cities, showing and explaining a series of colored slides of the Lambaréné mission, shaking hands and smiling and answering questions. She tells how old Dr. Schweitzer still makes the last rounds of all the patients in the hospital every night, because two years ago one of them, in reply to his morning greeting, said that he had not slept at all the night before, "waiting for you to say good night...
...only partly the singer's fault that three songs of Faure did not come off quite so well. Set to poems by de Lisle, Silvestre, and Verlaine, they typify that bittersweet, almost perfumed school of French music on the border of out-and-out Impressionism. Utmost delicacy and nuance are needed to convince the listener that "jets of slender fountains sob with ecstasy." Samuel Walter's piano accompaniment, although accurate, completely neglected the musical imagery. Miss Wheeler, for her part, lacks the technique of "French" projection--a sharply defined, almost nasal quality--that the vocal lines demand. She was more...
...yuletide that boasts a hit tune called I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (see Music), retailers did their utmost to provide the unusual-and expensive-in gifts...