Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the professors' difficulties in grasping the scope and depth of this monstrous injustice stem in part from their teaching and working in a 99 per cent white university -- an elite, businessman-banker-controlled university, at that. Nonetheless, the realities of American society are such that a course on George Wallace's favorite theme -- "An End to Urban Violence" -- might just provoke some sharply negative responses from the intended victims...
Yale, like Harvard, has outstanding sophomores, but lacks the Crimson's depth. The Elis showed promise at the start of the season, but in the last two weeks have lost to Army, Dartmouth, and Princeton--all average teams--dropping its overall record to 7-12 and its Ivy mark...
Roth's world is that of the nouveau riche and the pseudo-intellectual. His suburbanites struggle with the complexities of country clubs and housing developments; his professors, just out of Harvard or Columbia, are careful to pronounce Don Quixote with the hard X. None possess the depth or complexity of a Herzog. Roth sums it all up in my favorite image from his first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower...
Untouched by Guilt. In graphics, Munch was almost compelled to concentrate on one or at the most two aspects of his obsessive Eve. As a result, he often gained a depth totally lacking in larger group portraits of the three women. His sensuous 1895 Madonna captures a strangely melancholy bacchante, in the throes of some primeval ecstasy, clearly his "woman of lust." In Ashes (1889), she appears again, a wanton totally untouched by the guilt that overwhelms her partner-yet at the same time electrified by some outside, elemental force...
...produced a win in the 1000-yard free, with teammate Jim Smolen grabbing third. Smolen, a sophomore, was swimming for the first time since injuring his shoulder at West Point on December 7. Smolen was also third in the 200-yard free, and he may provide some of the depth which Harvard needs...