Word: graspingly
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...Club's program Sunday night was remarkable for three reasons; its infrequency of performance, its historical importance, and its enjoyable music. The concert consisted entirely of sacred music of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Music of this early period has several unfamiliar features which makes it difficult to grasp at first hearing. Landini cadences (familiar to all Music 1 students) appear frequently and contrast with the more modern dominant-tonic resolution. And the rather empty open fifth chords are a welcome relief after the lush harmonies of more recent composers...
...passion which the Italian temperament calls for, the play came sharply to life, as it did not during the wordy, heavy first act. The playwright might do well for a time to use her talent for witty dialogue in lighter vehicles until she comes to command a surer grasp of the difficulties of character and situation...
...problem now facing you, gentle reader, is to grasp the elementary principles of the game of cricket. Cricket differs from baseball in several fundamental respects. In the first place, the batsman can hit to all sides of him, instead of only forward as in baseball. There is no such thing as a foul ball in cricket; play can take place in all 360 degrees around the batsman. This naturally makes for more fluid play: the batsman uses a far greater variety of strokes than in baseball because he can hit in any direction, and the fielders have to cover more...
...eldest brother in the course of trying to persuade him to be reconciled with the prodigal; the second son, a parson, wrestles in agony with the problem of what to tell his flock about the prodigal's return; the father and mother are incorrigibly domestic and fail utterly to grasp the mighty symbolic drama being played before them. Soon the sister leaves town to have her child elsewhere, and the prodigal dies a Christ-like death (at least I think he dies, but there may be these who will dispute this interpretation). This is the substance of the action...
...doesn't find this out until the end of the play, however. For two acts "Autumn" does seem like a play about a New England family. There are plenty of symbolic overtones, to be sure, but one can grasp what is going on and be interested in the characters for themselves. Monday night, during the first two sets, one's spirits rose and one could tell oneself that this modern poetic drama wasn't so stiff after...