Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insofar as this idea is realized the college and university will no longer cloistered from the surrounding world., There will be no abrupt change when the student becomes a citizen. He will carry with him the poise and self-mastery one who, having drawn to himself all possible rays of light, will be compete to make enlightened decisions...
Change from Jello. As a slash at American middle-class life, Mr. Smith rarely cuts more than cuticle-deep. But for Author Louis Bromfield, who has tackled only Jello-weight themes for years, it marks an abrupt change of mental pace. Dunked in soggy prose and soupy characters, Mr. Smith still claims a kissing kinship with Babbitt and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman...
...script overplays Sally's rebellion and her mother's comeuppance as much as it exaggerates the spoils of tennis commercialism. Actress Trevor holds out best, but not entirely, against the abrupt, overwrought style that Director Ida Lupino, staging her fourth movie, seems to have carried over intact from her own jittery screen personality...
...close alumni observer of the Harvard scene it does not seem likely that the appointment of Tom Bolles means an abrupt shift in Harvard policy," the Bulletin continues. "Quite the opposite, in fact. Harvard is instead moving more and more in the direction of integrating athletics with the educational program of the College...
F.B.I. agent Galen N. Willis vigorously denied yesterday that the Burean would ever specifically ask for a man's college record. This statement was an abrupt refutation of Associate Dean Watson's claim last Wednesday that the F.B.I. had asked for such-information...