Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apartheid (apartness) is one of the few Boer words any well-informed American is apt to recognize. But what it's like is less familiar. And just why it applies to swimmers three miles out tells another side of the Africa story. Also in THE WORLD...
...modern taste, which feels uneasy in the presence of any kind of heroics, West's highly polished portraits are apt to seem his most appealing work. But as he wrote to his pupil Charles Willson Peale, "I am not friendly to the indiscriminate waste of genius in portrait painting." He wanted to "dignify man," to pass on lessons of "religion, love of country and morality." To the classic pursuit of the ideal, he added a romantic love of exalted sentiment. And this suited Georgian England perfectly: when men passed West's dramatic Death of Lord Nelson, they doffed...
High comedy is often compared to the dance, but few performances justify that analogy with the grace that this one musters. Miss Cross, who began her career here as a choreographer, has blocked this production like a ballet. Her most apt pupil, David Gullette (Feste) capers and leaps about in endless motion. He and Adrienne Harris (Maria) continually struck just the right pitch of lightness...
...European managerial system is apt to affront the U.S. businessman, but before the American congratulates himself too much, Granick suggests, he should consider the track record of European executives. Discounting the effects of the two World Wars, Granick calculates that ever since 1900, per capita economic expansion has been faster in West Germany, France and Britain than it has been...
...poems describe it better than any the critics can invent. Poetry, he said, "must almost resist intelligence." Only Randall Jarrell knows when he's licked: "Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around," he writes in perhaps the book's most apt judgment. Characteristic of Stevens' artful use of assonance and word-echoes to make a little something out of nothing much, is a stanza from "The Ordinary Women...