Word: crude
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Opera Company" little need be said. Miss Abbot herself does not justify much criticism either as a singer or an actress. Her voice has some pleasing notes in it, and it is smooth, but that is about all that can be said. Her acting is decidedly vivacious, but very crude. She gives the effect of a girl of seventeen who has just gone upon the stage. As Marguerite in "Faust" she fails almost completely. As Mignon she is a little more successful. In the support Mrs. Seguin easily leads, and her singing and acting are as enjoyable as ever. Messrs...
...theatre, then, because everybody else does. It has been your misfortune to see ballets in Italy, and opera bouffe in Paris; consequently the clumsy amazons and pages, and the crude, undrilled comedians, do not amuse you at all. You yawn and look about you. Not far off is Smith, with open eyes and open mouth, enjoying himself to his heart's content. He catches your eye as the comic man gets off a pun as stupid as the jokes of a circus clown; and he leans across and remarks that it is bully. You smile and nod, and are pleased...
WHAT the merits either of the University or of the Freshman crew will be cannot yet be said. The weather has offered few opportunities for rowing, and pulling together, and the men are in the same crude state they have been in all winter. The Freshman crew, however, promises to be much above the average, and if the spring training is as effective as usual, their chances for winning at Saratoga next July will be excellent. With the large number of colleges in the Rowing Association, and with the increased number of Freshman crews, the Freshman race will...
...could be otherwise; if the orator, with only a scholar's preparation, could spring full-armed to life, like Minerva from the Thunderer's brow. We should then be spared the blunders and failures of the young orator in his eager and oft-times futile efforts for success; that crude-ness which, in the young orator as in the budding writer, may be called, by a metaphor as true as it is homely, "veal." But this is one of the things impossible. The little bird, seeing its parent flying from bough to bough, thinks it can do the same. Having...
...Madisonensis contains one of those crude articles on Education and Common Sense, a kind with which the college press is much burdened. Two columns are devoted to a wholesale condemnation of the hard student. The author labors under the impression that well-trained, well-educated men are not wanted, and he amuses himself by applying to them such adjectives as fossilized and unconditional. Further, he evidently has recently attended Van Amburgh's Circus, for he favors us with a long discussion of Hannibal's tricks. To compare Hannibal with "rank" men is certainly original; but to apologize for Hannibal...