Word: contrivedness
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Green Hair falls short not because it hasan idea but because it has one too many (it tries to preach against both war and intolerance), and because it labors so clumsily to 'cram its ideas into the mold of "entertainment." As a result, the message seems as contrived and...
Miss Sitwell's earlier poems were hardly congenial to U.S. tastes. One critic thought of them as an artificial enchanted garden in which a rather nervous and overbred young lady trembled in a "trance of sensuous receptivity." Though brilliantly done, her first poems were excessively, lushly contrived. But as...
"I'm not sure what I'll do now," Russell explains. "I certainly would like a better reason for being refused than I got." Admitting, however, that the WHBS give-away program might be considered somewhat contrived if closely examined, Russell thought that he would probably let the comic's...
"There is nothing," averred Dr. Samuel Johnson, "which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern . . ." Last week he found agreement in an interesting quarter.
Army dominated the race for the earth time in the ten championship runs that have been held to date. Cornell placed second, followed by Pennsylvania, Yale, Dartmonth, and Princeton. It was at this point that the Crimson contrived to outrun the Middies and force them late last place.