Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown, Cornell, Columbia, and Yale have a requirement nearly double that of Harvard. In effect, a good student at one of these colleges must study a language for two years before receiving the needed credits; at Harvard, an apt student can satisfy the requirement after a single year...
...Degas' case, the subject was apt to be a ballet dancer; in Soyer's, it might be a young actress, a painter or a seamstress. But all his figures-whether a girl, a member of his family, or even himself-have the same bemused quality. "When people are by themselves, they begin to look like that, ' he explains. "Even in a crowd, they walk against you without seeing you,' their expression a kind of moody emptiness " Soyer's people live in a world of subdued color, curbed motion and meticulous design; yet they brim with...
...existentialist," present-centered thinking. We are, Snow feels, self-satisfied and unmindful of the starving other two-thirds of the human race. We should make it a goal of our drifting society to feed these people. Such a goal would require planning ahead. Since scientists are more apt to think in terms of the future ("they have a sense of knowledge to come"), we need more scientists in government...
...Lord of the Admiralty once more, after the message had gone out to His Majesty's fleet, "Winston is back." What really put the ABC series in flight were the words behind the pictures, the prose of Churchill spoken in the Elizabethan voice of Actor Richard Burton, an apt combination that gives The Valiant Years the ring of a historical drama, whether describing prewar England as a "fat, valuable cow tied up to attract the beast of prey" or Hitler as a "bloodthirsty guttersnipe" who would be "sponged and purged and blasted from the surface of the earth...
...England's weekly journals of opinion, the New Statesman is beyond much doubt the best written, best edited, most successful-and most maddening. It is read round the world, has particular standing among Asian intellectuals, including India's Prime Minister Nehru, who is apt to agonize over the mildest New Statesman rebuke. In Britain, it is relished or reviled with equal fervor. Wrote Irish Author Sean O'Faolain: "It is the British bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar-school intellectual, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole...