Word: blurredly
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...microphone is that only the orchestra records well, while the vocal parts are always confused and unclear. The soloists sound as though coming out of a distant fog, and are often completely drowned out by the orchestra. The chorus similarly, when it sings softly, becomes only an indistinct blur; when it opens up the stops, it creates a great huge blaze of speaker-shattering noise. All this could have been avoided with a little preparation. But the sloppiness did not end here. The cut-offs at the ends of records are abominably handled, coming often in the middle...
...stage set for a Shakespearean stock company. As you went in, you could see only the citizens, crowding together, trying to see over the heads of the people in front, wisecracking about what was happening. There were 1,200 of them in a room built to hold 500. The blur of their comments rose in the crowded air, as in those Shakespearean scenes where First Citizen turns to Second Citizen and asks him-how now-what he thinks of the hero...
...they booed the 1915 Ivy Orator's incongruous and long-winded speech when they discovered that he was no longer being funny, but was speaking in deadly earnest. Presumably they booed because his empty rhetoric and talk of not being "too proud to fight" was a stale attempt to blur the complex issues of national policy with outworn moral aphorisms. And many Seniors are today sick and angry because they are being asked to attend an admittedly partisan "preparedness" meeting which will seek to make capital out of Commencement-day idealism...
...corn-silk-smooth; gimlet-eyes, cross-eyes, big blue eyes, dim eyes; mouths wagging, lips smiling. When the train stopped, Mr. Farley said a few words, shook hands with those he could reach: hands bony, calloused, porky, damp, brown, white, black. And the train went on, past the blur of citizens in overalls, store suits, tailormades, in housedresses, straw hats with beaucatcher ribbons...
...case was "broken" when J. Cameron Blagden '42 was walking past the southeast corner of Westmorly Court and looking up at the clock, saw what he described as "the hands beginning to move a little, then faster, pretty soon going about 50 miles an hour, then becoming at iridescent blur...