Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welty's subtle blending and harmonizing of the moods and characteristics that make a large, well-knit family sound like an orchestra (sometimes a prison orchestra) going full blast. The aim and essence of Delta Wedding is the recording of this mass effect; it has no plot, no direct narrative, and its few dramatic incidents and occasional solos seem to be brought in merely to show how negligible and squeaky they are compared with the roar of the family as a whole...
With Donald C. McKay, associate professor of History, as chairman, the recently organized Committee on International and Regional Studies, which is located in Littauer Center, will direct the program...
...Teheran, Premier Ahmed Gavam announced a "complete agreement" with Moscow covering departure of the Red Army, a Russo-Iranian oil company with the Soviets holding 51% control, and direct Teheran-Azerbaijan negotiations as "an internal Iranian affair." The tie-in was as plain, if not as pretty, as a Persian poet's metaphors...
...buggy days, Protestantism's position was reinforced in every phase of U.S. life: church was the natural center for social gatherings, ministers were the cultural leaders of the community, Bible reading was a family habit. Today, changed conditions confront Protestantism "with a task for which the simple and direct methods appropriate to an age of simple and unorganized individualism are no longer adequate...
...original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. . . . The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters...