Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What emerged this summer was an airy, two-floor wing on the regular building with a score of stunning innovations. The chemistry lab has diamond-shaped worktables with ample drawer space and plentiful balances. The physics lab ceiling has hooks and pulleys at 3-ft. intervals for all manner of gravity and pendulum experiments. An electronic control board supplies any kind of electricity to every lab table. This year St. Charles will begin teaching the new M.I.T. physics course. The goal is that at least 10% of the students will have had two years of college work by the time...
Schwartz and Smith are not the Michelangeli of our age, by any means, but their prints present a refreshing and moving image of things in a new, though at the same time basically imitative manner...
...voters evidently were not complacent last fall. The appearance maybe that a prosperous America prefers immoblisme to dynamism. Professor Schlesinger may argue that liberalism is cyclical in this country but it had better find a solid program if it wishes to prevent the dissipation of future victories in the manner of this year...
...worldly and dispirited mentor. Both make the most of their important relationship, reacting to each other with a sensitivity that escapes the impersonality of the screen. Their love affair seems dramatically as well as thematically plausible. Heather Sears, cast as the daughter of the local power, employs her bland manner with purpose. Her pleasant, but empty face, and her unobtrusiveness, admirably heighten her own meaningless relationship to Harvey. Knowing that her role is one of the pawn, she has enough sense not to turn it into a tour de force performance...
...probably hasn't taken in as many smells as today." When it came time for the predictable message, Khrushchev was, as always, prepared: "These Soviet and American pigs can coexist-why then can't our nations coexist as well? . . . If I may say something in a joking manner-slaves of capitalism live well. But slaves of Communism also live well...