Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his swooping fancies and suave violence, Bemelmans at his best does not so much abandon reality as transcend it. But what Bemelmans can evoke in a paragraph, Adapter Ryan scarcely suggests in a whole production number. As gaudy extravaganza, the show is sometimes fair fun, and Fredric March and Florence Eldridge squeeze some good burlesque moments out of their roles. But there is not much human warmth to the laughter, and there are none of the suddenly touching moments there should be. Miss Ryan's orchestration all but drowns out Mr. Bemelmans' music...
Class Day is the seniors' own personal farewell to the College. Consequently, it usually has a quality of calculated abandon, though since the Twenties, veterans say, Class Days have been of an emasculated sort...
Wallace asked the party to abandon its "narrow range of support" and become "a broader forward-looking party." It could not tolerate "any organized factions or groups" within it. "Our principles are vastly different from those of the Communist Party," he said. ". . . We believe in progressive capitalism, not socialism...
Thievery and inefficiency have forced the Radcliffe library to abandon its honor system and install arbitrary checking on every student who wishes to take out a book. The new program will go into effect April 24, Joan Braverman '50, president of the Student Government, revealed last night...
...southbound from Alaska was on its last flight. Three of its engines were ablaze and it was settling fast. At 5,000 feet, Captain Harold L. Barry passed the order over the intercom: "Abandon ship." Then he cut in the automatic pilot. In the radio compartment just abaft the pilots' seats, Staff Sergeant Vitale Trippodi tied down his radio key to keep a signal on the air as long as the aircraft was 'aloft, and dove for the escape hatch. Within seconds, all 17 aboard had leaped into a 55-mile gale, drifted down into the wilderness...