Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edna Ferber's explicit explanations for her failure compare strangely with the reasons implicit in her story. Her sense of failure in general comes from her waning popularity, and from a sense of personal shortcoming which she traces to the ominous state of the world, particularly as reflected in the spread of fascism and antiSemitism. But she cannot decide whether she or the world has gone in the wrong direction; whether she has not been serious enough, or whether the world has grown too grim. In one breath she confesses that her novels sold well because they were escapist...
...best amateur figure skater in the U. S. Contrary to popular impression derived from the dozens of professional ice-skating shows that have been touring the country, figure skating is neither acrobatics on skates nor dancing on ice. The sport of figure skating has a set of explicit school figures, 41 in number, which must be executed with hairline precision. All 41 are seldom mastered in less than eight years...
...group, Arnold Kenseth, assistant in English and Curator of the Poetry Room, the works are "good spicy melodrama with enough 'body' for a masculine audience." Theodore Wood, Jr. 2G, who has been a consistent leading man when parts are drawn from a hat on "production nights" was more explicit. "It's good rugged stuff--all sorts of words are used without a blush." Wood did not explain whether it was the play or the players that did not "blush...
...what is a man to do when his human feeling, his civilized sense of decency, and his explicit democratic principles are outraged? If he is an academic person or, like college students, under the influence of academic persons he does not immediately act, he "takes thought." But even a man of thought may act. And if he acts soon enough, he may help matters...
Secretary Ira Chart '37, graduate student of Romance Philology, was much more explicit than the other members of the triumvirate. According to him, the club now has 25 members, and is strengthening itself with new and "serious" devotees. "It is virtually a discussion group," confided Chart, "we often meet at my house and talk quite intimately...