Word: employable
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...camera, which has been perfected to the point that it can catch the most fleeting expression, can render color in hues no longer dishonestly brilliant, and can see things in virtual darkness? And why, if he must "get back to the image.'' does he not at least employ the gains of imagination and emotion brought to painting by impressionism, surrealism and abstraction? A picture called The Window Box, on display at Manhattan's Maynard Walker Gallery last week, gives persuasive answers to both questions. In it is a little girl, perhaps sent upstairs for an hour...
...more satisfying was a private meeting with McGeorge Bundy, Jerome Weisner, Theodore Sorenson, and Mark Ruskin at the White House. Goldmark reported: "We were given a chance to discuss some of our proposals. We emerged much more sure of ourselves, because the Administration is apparently planning to employ some of the initiative we are suggesting...
...fuss about the foreign soldiers employed by Tshombe, who are widely and bitterly denounced as "mercenaries"? Many of them are probably no less idealistic than the U.N. soldiers fighting against Katanga (who in turn are denounced as "mercenaries" by Tshombe). Other African states employ foreign officers, and many Americans recall that their own country was aided by idealistic "mercenaries" from Europe during the American Revolution...
Grabgrind came to Harvard eight years later wary of its reputation as a place where one was asked to give often. He found, however, that he did not even need to employ his slippery skills; one could whisk past the supplicants at registration lines in 14 seconds flat. Easiest of all was the week of the Combined Charities Drive, which Grabgrind spent in Bermuda...
...could have written a song with such dreadful, simple-minded rhythm as The Little Train; nor is it easy to see why Yale sang it, and a worthless Swiss yodel song as well. And to top it off, they sang Fenno Heath's settings of three Blake poems, which employ only the most common place harmonies and rhythms and convey little of the poems' meanings. Indeed, several of the Whiffenpoofs' own songs were more imaginative. Heath's arrangements of two American folksongs were better, but his programming does not exploit the quality of his chorus...