Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather than gone back to it; never very regional, it displays much less the tang of Maine than the trend of Oklahoma! The lack of real lure is basic: the book is too cute and commonplace; the tunes seem reminiscent even when they are sprightly; the lyrics have an arid cleverness. And though George Balanchine is a superb "serious" choreographer, his dances here suggest a few bright ideas plus a farewell wave of the hand. Joe E. Brown is droll and likable; and with a stylish, skittish-spinsterish ditty called Golden Moment, Carmen Mathews stops the show...
Palencia began his straightforward observations of rural Spain as a child herding sheep on the arid plain of La Mancha, where Don Quixote started on his famous travels. At nine, Palencia's sketches of animals and lively peasant fiestas caught the eye of Don Rafael López Egoniz, a well-to-do Spanish engineer and art collector. He persuaded Benjamin's parents to let him take the youngster back to Madrid as his ward. There he set the boy to studying the great Spanish masters, but carefully kept him out of Madrid's traditionalist art schools...
...each other about everything under the sun." Today at Yale, scholars who have not talked to each other for years are beginning to communicate at last. The talk goes on in every classroom, in every corner of the campus. It is Yale's answer to the long, arid years of schizophrenia and specialization, to such critics as Abraham Flexner, who denounced U.S. education as "atomistic," and Robert Hutchins, who dubbed it "disunity, discord and disorder...
...fears; the grim spectre of compulsory service hangs heavy over their heads like the sword of Damocles. But we must remember that youth is the lifeblood of the nation. Still we cannot send a boy to do the man's job of stopping the savage hordes from the arid steppes. We must heed the clarion call of duty...
...trim, arid and isolated atom bomb-making colony of Los Alamos, N.Mex. (pop. 11,000), one man could not get a haircut. Because he could not, neither could anyone else get one in town...