Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screenplay for "Old Man" is too intent on preserving pristine Hemingwaysque to show any significant amount of cinematic imagination. The movie retains an excessive amount of the author's descriptive narrative, and at several points invites you to react as you would to a guided tour or a slide lecture. It also exaggerates Hemingway's literary use of African lioncubs in the old man's dreams, and confuses his visions of Africa with fishing flashbacks and highly ambiguous scenic shots. They may just as well have been filmed on a Cuban beach as in Africa, and the lions seem...
...does not spend all his time in the classroom. Preparation for talks and drawing up assignments take up time away from school. Classroom time includes observation or leading question periods. These different activities may add up to the maximum of ten hours, but the amount of time spent varies...
Although connected closely in this way with the Harvard members, MIT teachers are financially separate. They pay for their expenses themselves and have no support from any undergraduate organization. The HUT's, on the other hand, receive a certain amount of money from PBH and the Graduate School of Education. Because of the importance of publicity, the GSE paid for pamphlets. It can give no further aid however. PBH has allocated up to $350 for HUT transportation and food expenses, but even with this support the students must pay part of their expenses...
Seymour E. Harris '20 disclosed yesterday that his revolutionary long-term loan plan received "a fair amount of support" from the faculty seminar in the Economics of Higher Education on Wednesday...
...late Cardinal-designate Agostini, called Roncalli "calm after the storm." Venice was soon used to seeing his square, black figure almost everywhere, riding in the motor-launch buses and stopping for a chat in the cafes. His door was always open, and his secretaries disapproved of the amount of time he gave to visitors ("Let them come in," he would say. "They may want to confess"). At the Venice music festivals in 1953 and 1956, he filled St. Mark's with music such as the great cathedral had not heard since the 16th and 17th centuries, including the world...