Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation of students with a broad encounter with the fundamental forces and ideas that have shaped Western civilization; it has served as an important vehicle for a number of new and intellectually exciting courses which, either because of their interdisciplinary character or because of other special circumstances, did not fit beneath the umbrellas of particular departments; it has inspired a special enthusiasm in a small, dedicated group of faculty members who have thrown themselves wholeheartedly into this kind of teaching to the great benefit of their students...
Planned as the focal point of the Quad, rather than to fit in with the other buildings, the Study Center's brilliant, white surface of limestone panels and concrete will be broken by the shadows of its recessed windows. "If we had wanted the building to fit in," comments Mrs. Bunting, "we would have made it of red brick, but we didn't want the new Center to look like a dormitory...
...have never been able to understand or accept or even get accustomed to our kind of reporting. They especially like coverage by reporters who use that frustrating and unrewarding technique of sending out just enough to stay in. What they read in their translations of TIME stories did not fit that pattern. Our stories on the Soviet Union come from a wide array of sources available to our writers and editors in New York and to our correspondents elsewhere around the world. Important among these is our Russian Desk in New York, staffed by specialists who work constantly at translating...
...Masque of the Red Death dusts off a trifling Poe classic and adapts it to fit the collected smirks of Vincent Price. Poe's original described a masked ball at which the vulgar Prince Prospero and all his company succumb when Death appears disguised as a plague victim. In the elegant, elongated movie version, Prospero is a Satanist who scourges the entire 12th century countryside. He tortures peasants, tries to corrupt a village maid, and lets his pet dwarf barbecue a guest. Fortunately, by the time Death gets to the party, most of the nicer people have fled...
Golding's desire to draw a moral also leads him to simplify the other characters to fit general roles. He works out a set of convenient metaphors to describe each of them, and continually sticks in these formulas to remind the reader of the character's place in the general scheme. Jocelin's ecstasy always burns like a flame, and an angel continually appears behind him to stand for his inspired will. The Master Builder and his wife "revolve around each other." And the urge which entangles the Master Builder in adultery with an innocent townswoman is "the net." This...