Word: apt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unexciting & Shallow. The longer the student must work, the heavier will be his financial burden, and the more apt he will be to drop out of graduate school before finishing his requirements. But even if his money holds out, say the deans, "what surety does he have about the kind of training he will meet? . . . Here too much is obscure, and too often the assignment of routine courses replaces careful faculty consideration. Too much is mechanical; too little is personal. It is easier to tell a man to take the traditional courses-unexciting, shallow, and often repetitious survey courses-than...
...Gould Cozzens has made little impression on them. Students read Koestler, but Orwell gets a bigger play. Eliot holds his own, but as much for his criticism as for his poetry. Dylan Thomas is admired, but evokes no hysteria. Students still delve into Freud, but they are just as apt to be worried about the psychology of The Organization Man. The one new American author who has something approaching a universal appeal is J. D. Salinger, with his picture of the tortured process of growing...
...that he was a gentleman "despite those clothes." He was not very tall, but his eyes were blue. Unhappily, he was married. Still, Mary and Sinclair developed an intellectual sort of friendship, and in his circle she began to meet Fascinating People. There was Anarchist Emma Goldman, who was apt to throw vases (filled) at her lover. There was Sinclair Lewis, who sort of absentmindedly squeezed Mary's knee under a Greenwich Village tablecloth. There was a young poet called George Sterling-given to flowing tie and knickerbockers, a great sonneteer after the first 14 lines-who once knocked...
...such) but an engineer. He is restless, wrinkled, grey Pier Luigi Nervi, 66, whose soaring exhibition halls, breath-taking airplane hangars, utilitarian salt depots and tobacco warehouses are hailed by many as among the handsomest structures built in Europe in this century. One Italian critic has found an apt phrase to describe Nervi's work: "Poetry in concrete...
...that Hollywood had passed a milestone and that He (Alan Ladd) and She (Veronica Lake) were the latest and the greatest. In the interval, however, most customers have learned, from Hollywood's mistakes, the difference between the touchingly insane and the pathetically inane, and this remake is less apt to frazzle nerves than to tickle funny bones...