Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been suggested that Harvard's Commencement, the ancestor of all American academic ceremonies and quite distinct from those of Europe, is the United States' chief contribution to higher education. If an undergraduate cannot find distinction in the Harvard curriculum, he can be sure it will appear in the ceremony of the parting...
...history of art (exclusive of architecture) continues to be taught by the Fine Arts Department which, as Freedberg emphasizes, is entirely distinct from the Visual Arts Center and has no direct liason with it. This insistence on the separation of the Fine Arts Department from the Center can be explained by what Freedberg considers to be a consensus of opinion in the Fine Arts Department that "courses in practice or involving theoretical considerations of design are not actually necessary to the full understanding of the history of art or indeed the nature of artistic design. They may be a help...
...front side gave the building a remarkable sense of security; the brick carving in the cornices, the chimneys, and the friezes, is some of the best ever done in this contry; and the inclination of the building to harmonize with the older works in the Yard without sacrificing a distinct style of its own, is something few architects of the late 19th century ever understood...
...handed it to "management committees" of turbaned peasants. His regime has seized scores of cinemas, hotels and restaurants from Algerians who, in Ben Bella's words, "fattened themselves like pashas" by buying up property from fleeing Frenchmen. Unspoken Alliance. But Ben Bella's brand of socialism has distinct limits. Algeria's chief alliance is a strange, unspoken one, not with the Communists or with any Arab land. It is with France, Algeria's onetime overlord. As if to make clear its continued endorsement of Ben Bella, France recently agreed to speed up payment of its subsidies...
Director Joseph Strick, who showed a talent for visual satire in The Savage Eye, suffers a distinct falling off in this film. His next project, a film from Nathanael West's Day of the Locust, which has a more familiar setting and theme for him, will probably recoup his prestige...