Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boleroness of the thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite. At least however this Krupa version doesn't get out of taste very often and doesn't have any trombone "tiger" growls...
...sense only can I say that this exhibit is apt to give a false impression: certain standards of excellence are attributed to the artists whose works have been copied and these standards are pre-supposed for the purpose of distinguishing more clearly between what is genuine and what is not. This may lead one to believe that Raphael for example, never produced a poorly executed painting, or that Constable never failed to gain his desired effect, or again, that Corot was always successful in the creation of his shimmering landscapes. It should be understood that even the greatest artists must...
Outside of the story itself, the picture is apt to irritate any one who has been to Honolulu, because of the heavy fog and the overcoats that appear in one scene of the picture. Another small point: although Chan is meant to be Chinese, his bathrobe is a Japanese kimono. You can figure that...
...raise the question of what is to be done with a man who has spent ten years learning to be a good Harvard tutor, but for whom there is no permanent berth on the Faculty roster. Tutorial ability is not a saleable commodity outside of Cambridge; other universities are apt to be wary of a man whose teaching experience has been confined to his study or a room in Holyoke House. Yet Harvard must find a way to take care of these invaluable but academically forgotten men who occasionally receive the tribute of a line in the course catalogue...
Paris Gazette is an 860-page story of German émigrés and Nazis in Paris in 1935. Through exhaustive attention to two families and a newspaper, and an apt use of minor characters, Lion Feuchtwanger has set down an unprecedented amount on what it means to be of either camp...