Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is better in the Advocate does not balance what is worse. A dream-like story with a nightmare ending, Nowhere Special, takes first place by default in the short story class. In The Great Rake, Allen Grossman manipulates six words, cities, turn threat, casement, grass, world, into a poetic whole which is the best piece of creative work in the issue. As for the other poetry, two pieces by Walter Kaiser, from the Garrison Prize Poems, reveal a fine sense of imagery and a fluid style. Winifred Hare has written a sonnet...
...other three components of the film, Dinah Shore's singing takes second by default; but her acting, as a saucy WAC, is indifferent at best. Served up by Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, the romance is undigestible and the buffet of Goldwyn girls clad in turquoise and pink pedal-pushers is not the most authentic picture of WAC regiments...
Winthrop won over Dunster by default in another hockey contest...
...battle for the headlines was at once artificial and very real. The French were losing it at a time when both sides seek to gain bargaining power as a prelude to possible peace talks. The French can lose the war either by defeat (which has not happened) or by default (which may happen). To win the war requires stronger efforts (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and a sustained will...
...lower weights both Tatsue Arima at 123 and Phil Andrews at 130 have shown marked improvement. Arima, a native of Tokyo, is wrestling for the first time and already appears capable of handling his position. After winning by default in his first match, speedy Arima pinned both of his next opponents in the first period...