Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camera kiss as a ranking star, however, is given to Gene Raymond while the two of them, cast as a pair of jewel thieves, are hiding from the police in the house of a once-famed pianist (Lewis Stone). During the starry embrace the dark-eyed maiden shows no lack of promise...
...Yardlings swept five of the six singles matches and gained an even break in the two doubles contests which were played. Lack of time forced the third doubles event to be omitted...
...attention from them, and only a few of the younger men have corrected this by viewing the Classics as literature and putting it into terms other than second-hand nineteenth century "appreciation.' The department might be described as piling on Ossa of inherited Classical scholarship on a Pelion of lack-lustre emotion and getting, as the Giants in the legend did, exactly nowhere...
...simply their unenergetic point of view, their professional instead of artistic preoccupation, their lack of a theory on the value of the Classics for which one must blame the department. Some of the techniques now in use can also be criticized. A course for beginners in Latin, the need for which has been neglected, ostrich-fashion, should be given. The department must face the unpleasant fact that, partly by vigorously preserving the Classical tradition, the Division must itself assume the burden of elementary instruction. The fact that there are more students this year in Greek, where such a course...
...member of the Student Union Committee on the House problem I interviewed a House master who professed amazement at the passiveness with which the students accept the deplorable lack of facilities. This passiveness can be explained by the satisfaction of most us who were admitted, coupled with the fear the disappointed have that their protests will be labeled "sour grapes...