Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Undergraduate Athletic Council has, however, a long list of conditions which a sport must satisfy before consideration is given to such a promotion. Among these is the stipulation that there be sufficient spectator interest, the only area in which the lightweight crew has a weak case...
...president of the largest local union of professional musicians (30,000 members), I naturally read with great interest your comprehensive review of the state of music in America. The one individual who has made this picture possible is the professional musician, and he is, as you point out, its worst victim. There should be a change in our copyright laws to permit the musician a voice in where recordings and other mechanical reproductions are used, and an equitable share of the profits therefrom...
...Republican side, there is little sign of any solid movement to stand against the Democratic attack. The band of liberal Republican Senators who have rallied around Ike before are themselves nervous about his leadership, and have turned to Vice President Nixon for counsel. "In our own self-interest," said one ex-Ikeman, "we've got to convince the electorate that we are more energetic than Eisenhower." New Jersey's Clifford Case has already called for more aid to education than the Administration is expected to propose, and for better defense than it has produced; New York...
...great styles that make up the 20th century artistic breakthroughs and yet has a recognizable stamp of authority and color mastery all his own. Homage to Soldiers (see cut) owes a debt to Miro; his Four Bathers carries echoes of Picasso and Braque. But Pirandello's interest in the human form (he first studied to be a sculptor) keeps them well on this side of abstraction. Says Italian Critic Lionello Venturi: "He is the most human painter in postwar Italy...
...forgets to undress and dress her, striptease fashion. Her final disposition, and the outcome of the struggle for the presidency are fairly routine. Along the way, U.S. students are denounced as dumb fat-cats, professors are cast as unimaginative hacks, trustees are pilloried as cynical businessmen whose least interest is education, and foundations are pictured as troughs fought over by piggish college presidents. Being a professor, an ex-college president and a foundation man himself (Foundation for World Government), Author Barr writes from the inside. There is, unfortunately, too much truth in this cynical and sometimes heavily funny book. There...