Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most baffling glands in the body is the thymus. It lies just below the neck and behind the top of the breastbone, and in all the centuries that man has been studying physiology, its purpose has been unclear. It has hitherto fallen to butchers, marketing the thymus of the lamb and calf as the "neck sweetbread," to give the gland its only obvious usefulness. Now a British cancer researcher...
...with a vast number of these problems. At the moment, perhaps, nothing can be done; the departure for England of a Chairman who expects to resume his post next fall has left the Department in limbo. Yet the announcement restricting tutorial, while it is not a central issue, has fallen on this community with unusual force. Perhaps it can help to persuade the Faculty that the Gill program and the tutorial system itself can be absurdly ineffective if departments are unwilling to live by the spirit of their intent...
...much else on the program casts doubt on the seriousness of newer innovating composers. If they wish to be really listened to and considered musicians and not curios, they must eliminate from programs the laughable and eccentric works which confuse the evening's purpose. The music has fallen between humor and seriousness, and the composers have not yet convinced the audience that their interest is in either...
Sandro, a rich contract estimator who mouths dreams of the creator he might have been, dominates the film--not as a person, but as an impulsive bundle of sex-oriented sex appeal. From the moment he makes a pass at Claudia--a few hours after Claudia has fallen quite hopelessly in love with him, the film waits upon his comings and goings. He is the least human character in the film, and easily the least attractive, yet his obnoxiously simple character is also Antonioni's indirect way of saying there is nothing rational in Claudia's growing obsession...
...quit Zimmerman, leaving behind his drawings with the understanding that Zimmerman could use them in his classes but that the money from any sale belonged to Levine. The years passed; Zimmerman died, and it was not until last year that Levine thought of the drawings again. They had fallen into the hands of a Boston dealer who had put them on the market. "These things may or may not have intrinsic value. But they are personal documents and I had to get them off the market," says Levine. It cost him $4,200 to buy up his own child labor...