Word: exploitatively
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...pivot gracefully from the heels. Unfortunately, faced with a cold orchestra, he did not succeed in making the violins play clearly and together; the transition passages with string accompaniment lacked co-ordination. Although at times he devoted a nice attention to the subtleties of dynamics, he failed to exploit any of the possible tensions of silence: in the quiet dialogue among the upper strings before the overture's finale, he neatly chopped up time; the potential stretchings and pullings among the voices were lost...
...still hard to emerge from it without feeling shaken and upset. The reason is that Carol Reed, who directed it, is clearly a man of as little charity as Greene himself. Rather than resting content with what is, after all, a superb suspense story, he has chosen to exploit the resources of the novel's darker regions with a rather cruel thoroughness...
...repertoire of viola music is in a sad state; witness the fact that the two best pieces on the program were transcriptions (Brahms originally wrote his sonata for clarinet). Doktor demonstrated, nicely the unique tonal powers of the viola: all that lack now are more good opportunities to exploit them...
...true humor must make a fresh observation about situations which really exist. American comedians have failed on both counts, having created a swarm of strereotyped, false figures without saying anything original about them. Now, the critical humorists of the late fifties he said (including himself) are also tempted to exploit the easy, tested laugh; "twenty years ago a comedian just had to say Brooklyn. Now it's Madison Avenue...
...English Department had often crowded non-credit tutees in groups under inferior tutors, (2) that it had used the tutorial system, in or out of Honors, as a device for imparting factual Information and preparing students for generals, and (3) that as a result it had filled to exploit the educational possibilities either of the Gill program or of tutorials in general. The decision to restrict credit tutorial (against which the editorial was only incidentally directed) continues to lack what the CRIMSON feels to be the sole possible defense--the English Department's inability to provide an adequate teaching staff...