Word: leveller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Inter-school athletic programs failed to get a nod from the body. Since some graduate schools have no teams to field in any sport, the Joint Student Association felt it would be better to keep intra-University athletics on an informal, elastic level...
...fluent style, a flag-decked street brushed loosely and brightly in the manner of Monet,* and a rather plain blonde mooning over a plum in a cafe which Degas might have painted. Their sources were often apparent, but Manet's clean, revealing light raised each picture above the level of imitation and tended to surpass even his chosen masters'. That same light had long made Manet a laughingstock of Paris...
Tentative committees to teach Dunster House members the four sports have already been set up, the committee announced, with the specific purpose "to lay the foundations for extracurricular clubs on the House level." The three man committee of William Gold '49, William E. Jackson '47, and William E. McCoy '49 is already seeking suggestions for other courses...
...Gioconda Smile" used a murder incident merely as vehicle to carry the usual Huxleyan theme that lives not lived on both the sensual and rational level fall short of fulfillment. As a result the characters were not rounded, but rather each represented a perversion from Huxley's "golden mean." To develop the movie out of such a story it became necessary to make al the characters just a bit more human than they had been originally. Thus the film lost some of the story's meaning as the murder plot became an end in itself...
Following only a general agenda, the delegates hurled topics into the plenary session before discussing them in committee meetings. This led to oratory, parliamentary confusion, and few results beyond mounting tempers. Only when the conference turned at last to the International and National Commission level did any organization and perspective appear. The first, and most important suggestion is to establish a planning committee that could prepare a detailed agenda a few weeks before conferences. By contacting all participating colleges such a committee could coordinate the issues that would be raised with the delegates most capable of working on them. Then...