Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spectator, the Rev. Michael Gedge found the concern of Anglican bishops for clerical job security excessive. Said Anglican Gedge: "Obsessed by the national mania for security in all jobs, troubled by the very natural difficulty of maintaining a wife and family on the lowest of professional wages . . . bishops are apt to insist that a house, a stipend of ?550, dilapidations paid by the parish, and perhaps a few other extras, are the absolute minimum [for undertaking] charge of a parish. Yet one cannot help feeling that there is something wrong in all this; that young men are not moved...
...nation that enjoys humor, the U.S. gets mighty little in its fiction, and things are apt to get worse before they get better. That is enough to make book news of the latest volume by Robert Lewis Taylor, a profile writer for The New Yorker and, most recently, a biographer of W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill. The Bright Sands offers a good share of laughs, plus a steady run of chuckles and a warm feeling for the human race...
Robert Motherwell's Collage is apt to strike laymen as just terrible, and young U.S. painters as just wonderful. His "abstract expressionism" might be defined as picturing nothing at all with a minimum of conscious effort-it makes art a game. Yet the thousands of contemporary artists who paint like Motherwell are a solemn lot on the whole, and as dedicated to their lonely games of self-expression as any academic realist is to copying things...
...stitched (with the help of his nephew Claude Renoir, who supervised the photography in both pictures) a Joseph's coat of heart-catching colors. The colors weave and flow in a rhythm that carries one image vigorously into the next. The flow is swept along, too, by the apt and fetching musical score of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian master of the age in which the scene is set. The lively songs of the mounte banks are cribbed from some old com media dell' arte notes, except for a pert little tarantella by Musical Director Gino Marinuzzi. Color and sound...
...sake" is a desirable slogan, why not "science for science's sake"? Modern scientists, whose goals are apt to be shaped by armed forces' research grants or a corporation's search for bigger & better laboratory-tested mousetraps, are diffident about performing their experiments for pure research purposes. Sir Edward Appleton, principal of the University of Edinburgh and a Nobel Prizewinner in physics, believes that "science for its own sake" is a slogan to be proud of. His thesis, as quoted in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Science is illuminating as well as fruitful." Says Sir Edward...