Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Author Hart guides his characters through their scenes, he also manages some fascinating asides. There is Hart's quick test of tryout success (when a play is doing well, room service is always prompt, but when it is in trouble, the waiters are always late and the sandwiches soggy); there is Hart's law for the aspiring director (the less sure he is of himself, the tougher he must be with the cast). Hart knows how to interpret all the sounds made by an audience: the implications of their coughs, the degrees of their laughter, the intensity...
...over the uses of the visible invisible demonstrates how important to Moore was his discovery of its potentialities. But today he avoids the word hole. "I have attempted to make the forms and the spaces [not holes] inseparable, neither being more important than the other," he insists. In many late works he has all but abandoned the hole. But through those first apertures Moore traveled like Alice through her rabbit burrow into a most fertile wonderland of sculptural invention...
...cost of living will rise. Hard goods will be immediately affected because a bigger share of consumer spending will go to the cost-of-living items [mostly soft goods]. And then we will have a drastic reduction in inventories and capital expenditures. I expect to see the downturn in late 1960 or early...
...Late in the summer, the word "Seminar" was added to give the project a degree of concreteness, and three weeks ago a "catalogue" was sent to freshmen listing 22 proposed study groups. Entitled the "Freshman Seminar Program," the groups will include a total of 150 to 175 freshmen, who in many cases need qualify only with "enthusiasm and lively interest." Despite the fact that the program has been established well enough to present a seminar curriculum, the ideas and opinions of its organizers are still in a state of flux. Approach a dozen men leading seminar groups and a dozen...
Quincy decided to enter law and apprenticed himself to Mr. William Tudor for training, not only in legal niceties but also in political maneuvers. Josiah was born and remained a Federalist, although the party collapsed 40 years before his death, and despite his relatively late start in politics, he advanced rapidly...