Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, her ability to grasp and then project contrasting emotions demonstrates that she is a truly great artist. Her first offering, a group of songs by Tchaikovsky, was a welcome relief from the syrupy Tchaikovsky that usually appears in the vocal repertoire. Madame Averino chose seven simple, almost naive, numbers, and sang them with tasteful restraint. Hers is an intimate style, not wholly suited to the sprawling impersonality of Sanders Theatre. Had a smaller, more congenial hall been available, I believe both she and her audience would have been happier...
This is a subtle thought, difficult to grasp, and has all the tough-minded ear-marks of one of those realistic political principles forged under the pressures of the game hard-played and won or lost on a shrewd, intuitive knowledge of what the other fellow is apt to do next. The Hughes Principle looks to us as if it were tempered to deal with the hard political realities of the time--the reality that pressure groups in these United States no longer judge an idea, or a work of art, or even a motion picture on its meaning...
...foot hole in a midtown Manhattan street without being caught. Another time he attached an artificial hand to his sleeve, took a trip through the Holland Tunnel. After fastening his toll ticket between the plaster fingers, he whizzed by the collection station, left both ticket and hand in the grasp of a horrified attendant. In addition, he has diverted himself by planting fake pearls in oysters, coaching South Sea Island native youngsters in fantastic Troy-devised folk tales to be retold to gullible anthropologists...
...that the ruling was issued, Harold A. Wolff '29 closed his office, and decided to become an "educational counselor--and adviser to students who have done their work, but who cannot grasp the course material...
...whom are played off against each other in unlimited combinations and permutations. Needless to say, these character relationships and the development of Miss Hellman's philosophy through them take up the better part of the play's two and a half hours; one leaves the theatre with a distinct grasp of five or six rather extraordinary personalities and a vague impression that some sort of tenuous plot has been woven around them...