Word: lacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robin Howard (Josie) and David Hooks (Jim) lack the aptitude for character work that these early scenes demand, and Michael Murray's direction, competent for the most part, does not make good the deficiency. Miss Howard works at being a great big slob with more assiduity than conviction. Mr. Hooks, charged with the equally difficult task of erecting a convincing facade around Jim's lunar desolation, elects a vaudeville entertainer's spring step and circus-barker patter; but it is the actor, not the character, who seems not quite able to bring...
Also "A social village in the heart of the Princeton campus, a kind of Harvard Square without bookstores, is what these gentlemen sorely lack," he said...
Despite its lack of sufficient scholarship funds, Sarah Lawrence was one of the first colleges to refuse the government loans offered under the National Defense Education Act, because of the attached loyalty affidavit...
...most cerebral and calculating of styles. Kandinsky's early work, swirling with pure color and vivid with strong brushwork, strikes me as his most successful. When he paints flat colors enclosed in rigid outlines floating against a monochromatic background, them my dissatisfaction with the picture equals his lack of attachment to its content...
Leger's early work has a rugged texture, and gruff and brusque approach to subject matter that his smooth-surfaced later pictures lack. TheSmokers of 1911 and Variations of Form of 1913 show this style at its most robust and most assertive. Their power is unparalleled in the rest of the show...