Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direction wrings the last ounce of suspense from the scenario with a sure sense of timing and sharp, clean cutting. The picture builds from 10:40 a.m. to its high noon climax in a crescendo of ticking clocks, shots of the railroad tracks stretching long and level into the distant hills and of the hushed, deserted streets of Hadleyville. Throughout the action, Dimitri Tiomkin's plaintive High Noon Ballad sounds a recurring note of impending doom...
...someone has to do something. On this Grand & Glorious Fourth, when orators traditionally remind the nation of the dream of freedom, the fighting spirit, the hatred of tyranny and the sense of purpose that gave it birth, the U.S. is engaged in a frustrating, distant war that seems to have lost its meaning. It has been called a "police action," but the police are sitting in a tent arguing with the criminals...
...location is an important factor, and the Committee on Admissions, while weighing grades highest, will then start the selection process in the west and work east. The danger here is that many a fine student from an eastern school may be by-passed for the student from a more distant locale...
Send thy sons into each distant clime...
...despite this, Conant, unlike Lowell, saw hope that the members of the class of 1952 could attain a practical ideal--not the hazy and distant ideal of Lowell. Quoting Horace Mann that one should "be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity," Conant prophesized that the members of 1952 will be given "the privilege of making the reformer once again a highly respected though bitterly controversial figure" who "will forge new tools with which to reshape our American democracy to meet a continuously changing technological civilization...