Word: dimly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cliches of Harvard's official administrative prose goes something like this: "The University takes a dim view...
Known facts about Van Leyden are few and dim, his surviving pictures few and brilliant. The most notable quality in his paintings is their daylight luminosity. Van Leyden was a child prodigy, a master of his craft at twelve. At 33, six years before he died, he was rich and famous enough to make a triumphal tour of the Low Countries, dressed in a shining yellow suit, giving great banquets for the local artists of each town he visited...
...successful political campaign is part light and part reflection. A candidate can work himself into a bright glow, but he must also get a bounceback of enthusiasm from his audience. Last week Ike Eisenhower's bounceback was dim...
Most sophisticated Americans-however anti-Communist- pretty well shared the overseas Dim View of our politics . . . The melodramatic mise en scene [was] made familiar to us by the creative imaginations of our most highly regarded social dramatists, novelists, forward-looking historians, social scientists, editors and journalists of the '20s on, both before and after the Popular Front dispensation...
...Dim View. But Leeds has had its troubles. Last February, two U.S. companies released identical recordings by the National Philharmonic and Bolshoi Theater choruses and orchestras of Shostakovich's Song of the Forests: only one of them was Leeds-licensed. A few months later, two companies brought out Violinist David Oistrakh's expert performance of the Brahms Double Concerto...