Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher of composition, she is exacting, enthusiastic and compelling. She likes to absorb her pupils' lives completely, is apt to beguile them into carrying her packages, ask them to drive her car, or come in the middle of the night to do copying for her. Students either enter into the spirit of things or leave. Nadia Boulanger is a classicist who regards classicism as an attitude and a discipline, rather than a slavish conformity to formula. Says she: "Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains...
...Department's specialist in military government, Major General John H. Hilldring, gave the outline in Detroit this week. Said he: "The sincerity of the U.S. . . . is on trial in Korea. . . . We have dug in. We shall stay until our mission is accomplished." The military figure of speech was apt. In Korea the U.S. faced the Soviets across a steel line bisecting the country-the 38th parallel. This was the outgrowth of Yalta. To the north were 10,000,000 Koreans under Soviet rule, with nearly all the nation's industrial resources but little agriculture. To the south were...
Loyal Martha Graham cultists usually blame themselves if they fail to understand their high priestess. Less devoted followers of the No. 1 woman of modern dance are only apt to be confused as they wander desperately through her cryptic program notes to see what she is trying to tell them. Last week, to packed houses in Manhattan, Dance-Dramatist Graham unleashed two new messages for the cultists, the confused and the curious...
...accidentally put salt (in Lucretia P. Hale's Peter kin Papers'). Family and friends added one ingredient after another, hoping to make Mrs. Peterkin's coffee taste better. A lady of wisdom finally suggested that Mrs. Peterkin just pour a fresh cup. That solution was not apt to occur to Congressmen-they usually prefer something more laborious...
...winter air is apt to be full of "supercooled" clouds (below the freezing point). These clouds might, with help, be converted into snow. If it works, G.E.'s effort' to manufacture snowstorms might appreciably affect the U.S. climate...