Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even better was the Debussy Sonata No. 3. Playing like a professional, Miss Colish took the tricky rhythms in her stride and exhibited a rich, livid tone that had been absent earlier in the evening. Skillful modulation of phrasing and dynamics, ranging from sudden bold contrasts to the subtlest of nuances, helped to make the sonata a glowing and multicolored organism...
Courtney Craig Smith '38 was installed Saturday as the ninth president of Swarthmore College. In his inaugural address, Smith said that the public must be taught that colleges are more than "the haven of half-backs, cheer leaders, junior proms, and absent-minded but wonderfully conspiratorial professors...
Meet Mr. McNutley (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS). Academy Award Winner Ray (The Lost Weekend) Milland as the absent-minded professor at a women's college. The characterizations are trite, and most of the action is warmed-over slapstick. Milland's fine talent for light comedy is pretty well smothered. (Sponsor: General Electric...
Back in the U.S., McElroy got his first big chance in P. & G.'s advertising department. His boss, tending a sick wife, was often absent, so it was up to McElroy to run things. Says he: "It was the kind of a situation bound to lead to the hothouse development of a man-or break him completely." Gradually McElroy's ability caught the eye of P. & G.'s longtime President Richard R. Deupree...
...with portraits, as sharp and solid as plowshares, of the hard-bitten farm people among whom he had lived. Shortly after his return, in Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small part in the Manhattan revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess). His work is as clearly in the American grain as that of Thomas Benton and Grant Wood, and happily free of both Benton's swagger...