Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateur authors, this sort of just-miss effect is bound to be prevalent, and unless a skillful and thorough editorial hand guides the magazine more carefully in the future, "Radditudes" will find itself with a chronic weakness. In "Afraid of Happiness," for instance, Miss Susan Seidman makes a brave attempt at satirizing a special horrid type of love-story--the sort that appears in periodicals of the "True Romance" ilk. For the most part, she achieves her effect subtly, but she spoils the total impression by an occasional broad and incongruous touch. The borderline between burlesque and satire...
...author's marked literary and dramatic talents could have saved the story from its present confusion. It is the longest work in "Radditudes," and most ambitious; its study of a student suffering from some sort of war neurosis leaves the reader impressed and bewildered. If there had been no attempt at symbolism, if Wainhouse had limited himself to a simple character sketch, the story would have been clear and good. Once he decided to have the cigarette lighter mean something, he should have made its meaning more apparent...
Harvardevens Village, University outpost at Ayer, Massachusetts, has invited the cast of "St Joan" to perform at the Village Recreation Hall on Monday evening. This marks the opening of what Donald Hunt '49, Village spokesman, described as an attempt to secure "more good entertainment at Harvardevens...
...were placed at strategic spots along the line of march, while plainclothesmen infiltrated throughout the Yard. Police strength was increased two-thirds during the last Yale game, but here attention was directed more to stray pocketbooks than missing goalposts. The Force considers gridiron shenanigans with little concern but any attempt at dynamiting Soldiers Field is regarded as carrying seasonal jocularity...
With the College-wide boycott now in effect five days, Swan stated that the embargo has been a definite success insofar as the members of the University are concerned. "However, an attempt will have to be made to reach the Cambridge citizenry outside of the College," he said. Since last Thursday, when the boycott was announced, the patronage of the Club 100 has been comprised almost entirely of this extra-university group...