Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Sperry, this year celebrating his twenty-fifth anniversary as head of the School, has recommended to the commission a concern with the general subject of religion in the University and how the Divinity School may find closer ties with the College...
...willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book of verse before your eyes, you come a bit closer to understanding Hangchow's appeal-and maybe to understanding China and her people...
Eighteen months after its original Boston opening, pulling into the Hub for the last week of its existence, Maurice Evans' so-called G.I. version of the great English tragedy is incomparably closer to achieving its original objective than it was when it opened in 1945. What makes the difference in this strangely improved production is the supporting cast, which has undergone a complete transformation since the opening. Gone are the foreign accents, the faltering diction, the awkward pace of the original Gertrude, Claudius, and Polonius; in their place an almost perfect supporting trio has appeared. As the queen, Doris Lloyd...
...attempt to come closer to the original architects' design than the final pre-war agglomeration of metalwork, corner pinnacles, small dormer windows above the clock faces, and various gewgaws which were added in 1897 will probably not go back on the tower...
...Atomic Energy, the growing need for some sort of mass comprehension of science has been iterated and reiterated. When President Conant concludes that the layman can best understand science through its tactics and strategy, rather than by means of "even the basic principles or simplest facts," he moves closer to uncharted territory. This approach, President Conant believes, will show the walls and moats around any advance in science, how these hazards can delay scientific progress for as much as 150 years, and the various ways by which they can be overcome. In other words, "On Understanding Science...