Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garish, vulgar, massive, bewildering, chaotic...
...accurately appraising and interpreting events in Europe-with always in their minds as in the minds of all U. S. citizens the mounting question: What do these events mean to the U. S.? What might the U. S. do in a world already war-torn and threatened with chaotic consequences...
...more than this, the University should immediately undertake an academic house-cleaning. Responsibility for the tutoring racket in its worst form lies jointly with the vicious mal-practices of the schools themselves, with the indolent students who use them, and with faults in the academic curriculum: worthless teaching or chaotic course organization. Elimination of the last means a body blow to the tutoring evil. Within a few days the Crimson will submit to President Conant a list of courses which have been indicated in its poll as possessed of glaring faults. There should be speedy investigation and remedy of these...
...Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). Since he wrote Middletown, Dr. Lynd has taught sociology at Columbia University and brooded on the fact that mankind, busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures by huddling together, nervously loquacious, at the edge of an abyss...
...result, Part I of Five Kings is a chaotic Shakespearean vaudeville in which the sense of history is conveyed chiefly by having all the characters grow older, and some of them die. The production lacks all style and almost all significance. What might have been a tour de force jumps so fast from one thing to another as to be a non sequitur de force. Often good theatre, it is never good drama, just as Welles's portrayal of the fat knight is often good fun but seldom good Falstaff. Played on a twelve-part revolving stage that keeps...