Word: amateurish
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...attempt to restore in present-day terms the standards of space and comfort which marked an earlier Harvard. Yet the effort at preservation has led to a transformation; presenting drama in the Loeb or teaching art in the Carpenter Center naturally produces pressure for higher; less-amateurish, standards of performance. A similar, although less sharp, pressure for excellence, is exerted by the other new buildings although Leverett Towers, with its huge population of cubicle-dwellers, has tended to de-personalize House life...
...Harvard Rugby club, a supposedly amateurish organization, looked surprisingly professional on their Spring trip in Bermuda last week. The Crimson swept through four games undefeated, and appears to be the distinct favorite in their Ivy League opener against Dartmouth tomorrow...
...Christy Mahon, the dreamy wanderer whose bloody tale of parricide bewitches every hearer on that lonely and scandal-starved strand. Pegeen clucks over him like a pullet, the Widow Quin sets traps for him, and a bevy-for there is no other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs...
Although these these flaws keep it from sharing Kane's greatness, Mr. Arkadin remains brilliant. The work is alternately baffling and lucid, and should be see. Welles is certainly one of the finest contemporary directors; his camera work makes the French "nouvelle vague" group look amateurish. One particularly effective scene shows the grandeur of a penitentes procession in Barcelona. The black-robed figures passing in torchlight surpass the processions in Ivan the Terrible, for Welles is always free of the episodic tableau photography that marred Eisenstein's films...
...pictures are more rewarding. Most have the amateurish quality one expects, but several are surprisingly good. Three powerful portraits and an interesting still-life vaguely reminiscent of Chirico's work, all painted by a Norfolk prisoner, need no apologies at all. And several sketches of President Kennedy display perhaps the slickest, if most mechanical, technique in the show. But the general profusion of romantic, often garishly-colored outdoor scenes will probably interest the psychologist more than the art critic. It would be unrealistic to ignore the flaws in the prisoners' work but equally unrealistic to ignore the conditions under which...