Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With such practical doubts of the military program I cannot support our present policy of destroying Hitler. Furthermore, I think there is a distinct alternative which I want to talk about in my future columns. Behind this alternative is the idea that Nazlism reveals fundamental faults in the world economy which an irrational war completely prevents us from understanding and curing. Behind it also is the simple faith in men as individuals who only want to live, a desire which transcends ideologies and explains them. Only through a combination of these two things--of reason, that considers facts...
Attempts by sociologists or vertebrate zoologists to classify the Radcliffile as a distinct type have usually failed, due to extreme personality variations among the cases studied. The only carmarks that approach universality are that (1) they typically display an awe of the sacred name of Harvard; (2) they have at least a passing interest in intellectual subjects (investigations prove that the median I.Q. of women is more than 10 points higher in Harvard Square than it is in Scollay Square); and (3) they are females (though this is of doubtful value in some cases). Any further scientific description calls...
...girls not only stand out as distinct individuals but also mature in the course of the volume. At points the intimate realism in describing Flip's artistic ambitions, her crush on Professor Brooks Creighton, and her feeling of estrangement from the life at home, approaches the bitter dissection of college life in Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"-though Miss Carrick's approach lacks his sweeping inclusiveness and turgid power. Her polished style and delicate portrayal temperament are more in the urbane manner of Willa Cather. Only the concluding chapter betrays a novice hand. The threads of the plot, unsnarled...
...their native landscape. Like U.S. artists they were good water-colorists. Like U.S. Middle and Far Western artists of a generation ago, the Australians had learned most of their tricks from the 19th-Century French Barbizon landscapists, showed that they had been too busy pioneering to develop a distinct tradition of their own. The Australia they painted looked like Texas-a Texas with blue eucalyptus and mauve acacia trees, sun-bleached to pastel colors...
...attempts at humor and hope someone will mercifully bury it. A much cheerier subject is the technical genius which has been employed in the production. Topped by the novel triumph of a swimming pool built into the stage, a colorful and impressive array of no less than a dozen distinct scenes is presented--effective enough in themselves to keep a normal audience awake. The presence of the afore-mentioned body of water is thoroughly exploited and the show ends up as a fancy and comic diving exhibition midst colored lights, soft music and beautiful girls, all of which brings back...