Word: compacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second floor are individual offices for clinical instructors. When remodelling scheduled to be done this summer ends by September, all clinical teaching will come together within a compact area designed to afford close contact between faculty, students, and patients...
Professor Walsh's little book, Campus Gods on Trial, is a compact champion of Christianity against the secularism of the modern college. Unfortunately, like a competent lawyer with a speech defect, Walsh gives poor expression to a persuasive case. Even the ideas of Pascal sound pretty shallow in the childish lisp which the author conceives as "the language of the student." Analyzing Existence as "a three layer cake," the book abounds in silly metaphors, terming Christ "the penicillin of Salvation" and the Incarnation "God's rescue operation." His attempts at jazzy writing are equally dismal, whether describing a "Warm Fire...
...French politicians seemed painfully, even resentfully, aware that the U.S. expected France to ratify the compact it had initiated and initialed. They could think of all kinds of reasons why not to ratify: the plan was undesirably complex; why put Frenchmen side by side with German soldiers...
This year's schedule will be the most concentrated in the EIBL, 23 year history. Every team finishes before the mid-May final exams. The compact schedule enhances the possibilities of playing-off pennant ties or rained-out games...
Every poet runs the risk of being misunderstood; and there are many readers who do not care to make the effort to understand Eliot. But he is never willfully obscure, though his poems are compact of literary allusions, many of which will escape the thinly read. But no reasonably well-educated and sensitive reader can escape the poems' impact and meaning. In The Complete Poems the course he has run becomes clear. It began with satire that expressed something close to contempt for his fellow men. But Eliot survived and surpassed satire. His maturer poems are religious, culminating...