Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kovacs won the comparison test, hands down. He put together a half-hour quite different from his usual garrulous routines and his role as sometime host on NBC's Tonight. Instead, Producer-Writer Kovacs buttoned his lip tight and proved himself TV's most inventive master of pantomime, sight gags and sound effects. When he opened a copy of Camille, a female cough came out of it. He educed a knowing chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib. As Eugene...
...disciple can stress the master's geometry out of plumb and still retain its purity. An even more austere geometric form, Josef Albers' Homage to the Square-"Yes" won third prize. Robert Gwathmey's The Clearing, a study in posterlike realism, looked downright old-fashioned by comparison...
When Pitt's trustees picked Litchfield in the summer of 1955, they were well aware that the university needed a face lifting. Though it had long been doing a competent job, it was, in comparison with other U.S. campuses, a mediocre place in danger of stagnation. Restless and indefatigable, Litchfield taught political science at the University of Michigan, at 33 became General Lucius Clay's civil-administration director in Germany. Later, he took over the Governmental Affairs Institute, a nonprofit research organization, and as a dean at Cornell University, he made the Graduate School of Business and Public...
...Club came into existence on a dreary tenth of March, 1908, when eight undergraduates, dissatisfied with college dramatics as they knew them, met in the Union to map out something new. They decided to compensate for their tardiness in organizing, in comparison with other college drama groups, by making this organization unique: they would produce only original plays written by Harvard undergraduates. Students of Professor George P. Baker's English 47 Playwriting Course, they longed to see the plays they wrote turned into life on the stage, and with Baker's blessing, they dedicated the Harvard Dramatic Club to this...
This plan would abolish formal grades for graduate students. The marking system has always been unsatisfactory, Elder pointed out, since in most cases it provides only a comparison with other students in a course...