Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hero of The Old Man occupied one corner of a composition that was too loose and bare to be properly described as a composition at all. There was nothing sunny about the level light that pointed up a shuttered window above the old man's head, and the sky beyond had in it more paint than air. Yet the somber, dilapidated house front dwarfing the children on the sidewalk, the green smudge of a treetop peering over the adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition...
...Patience" has a great deal of very light and tuneful music. It demands the light touch to put it across with the zeat required to create and enjoyable performance. I have infrequently soon so much zest and life put into anything, and I have never seen a more enjoyable presentation of "Patience...
Seldom has such asininity and irresponsibility been shown by the CRIMSON as in your phantasmagoric coverage of the Adams House forum on "The Vital Center." Your reporter's incompetency was first brought to light by the story announcing the forum, in which the CRIMSON said: "The book sets forth the author's (Schlesinger, Jr.'s) theories on a possible area of agreement between moderate liberal and modern conservative opinions." Your man obviously hasn't read the book, or does not comprehend it and has been misled by the title. Mr. Schlesinger, Jr. is a radical democrat and said...
Jordan's strength this year appears to center around the middle weights; the lightweight men may or may not come through; men in the light heavy and heavyweight divisions are wrestling out of their weight classes and it is hard to say how they will fare against stiff competition...
...sedition, 18 USC 10; and in addition, conspiracy to commit any of the above was punished under 18 USC 88. Also, Federal Civil Service employees are liable for discharge "for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service." 5 USC 562. Obviously, in light of these existing statutes, more than protection against "subversive acticity" motivated the issuance of the loyalty order...