Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat more exact account of music's emotional effects than music's much-reputed power to soothe the human breast was attempted last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry by lanky, bearded Dr. Howard Hanson, dean of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. Dr. Hanson's conclusions pointed to possible uses of music in controlling emotion, and perhaps to a new wrinkle in esthetic theory. His main conclusion...
...tramp, tramp for the ladies, as they march everywhere they go--to classes, to meals, and to exercise. Their discipline and program will be similar to that of the Naval School in the Yard, and those gentlemen will have to learn to salute the officerettes, who are technically the exact equal of men in similar rank...
These regulations will apply only to those students who, having been ordered to active duty before the end of the Term in which they leave College, submit to the Dean's Office an exact copy of their orders, or some comparable affidavit in the case of students going into some service accepted by the University as auxiliary to the military service...
...book falls into two almost exact halves, the first of which will interest only the economist who wishes to explore the complexities of Marx's thought down to its roots. The second part of the book, however, is the first effective treatment of the Marxian view of world history yet published. Dr. Sweezy is a convinced Marxist--the reader cannot escape that fact--but his thought is refreshingly free of the usual overtones of a commentator dangling at the end of Browder's tether. This volume is the work of a pure Marxian Socialist, not of a self-contradicting member...
Alfred Stieglitz has been praised without end in terms both glowing and peculiar. Wrote Esthete Lewis Mumford in 1934: "In a part-by-part revelation of a woman's body, in the isolated presentation of a hand, a breast, a neck, a thigh, a leg, Stieglitz achieved the exact visual equivalent of the hand or the face as it travels over the body of the beloved." Cracked Artist Thomas H. Benton: "When Stieglitz aims his camera at a young woman's backside it is as if he had discovered for the first time in history that young women...