Word: apt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bull's-Eye Pitch. The simile is apt. As 'they launch with bull's-eye pitch and sure-fire sense of attack into one of their jazz-flavored re-arrangements (You Took Advantage of Me, Stormy Weather), the Hi-Lo's suggest the Budapest String Quartet gone mad. But this quartet is not tied to strings, generally achieves its best effects with vocal approximations of all kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar...
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Hal Wallis; Paramount). In Hollywood westerns, as in popular legends of every age, the men's men are apt to be just big overgrown boys, and in chasing the villain they are actually running away from the woman. But in this highbrow horse opera, the lill-death-do-us-partnership is in some ways a little too close for comfort...
...average professor, indeed, is as apt to have a deliberate policy of avoiding undergraduates as of cultivating their friendships. The undergraduate is, from a faculty point of view, often a burden. As the Behavioral Sciences Report noted in 1954, "Harvard's effort to bring individual instruction to the undergraduate through a tutorial system (recently revised) puts another large burden on the faculty...
...challenging and often inspiring. The Departments are usually too rigidly committed to the idea that what is best for the scholar is best for Harvard and forget or are afraid to admit that scholarship is not the only worthwhile creative pursuit. As a result, artists and authors are more apt to visit Harvard for a year and give extra-curricular talks, rather than courses where their ideas can be given a closer discussion and where students can exchange ideas with the artist...
...Feel Free!" Though both these satellites are entirely independent corporations with their own trustees, Ford Foundation officials are apt to go out of their way to emphasize the complete autonomy of the Fund for the Republic. It is literally, says Robert Hutchins, its present head, "a completely disowned subsidiary of the foundation," and when it has spent its $15 million, it can expect to get no more. Its motto, according to Hutchins, is "Feel Free." Its province: the turbulent area of civil liberties...