Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's Nehru, initially pleased by Russia's invitation, was now less keen to participate at the risk of promoting Nasserism and looking like a Soviet stooge. France's Charles de Gaulle continued to play his lone hand in the grand manner. Unmoved by Anglo-American disapproval, unshaken by the fact that every other NATO nation opposed his position in an impassioned 5½-hour session of the NATO Council, De Gaulle continued to call for private five-power chats, somewhere in Europe in the "necessary conditions of objectivity and serenity," and never mind about gathering...
Mary Fraley Johnson played the Sonata for Violoncello Solo, Opus 25, No. 3, in her usual dramatic and vehement manner. This piece is some-what similar to its predecessor from the same opus, but was not nearly so dissonant. It did, however, accentuate the same tonal richness...
...committees of the Faculty. The groups were looking for a new curriculum that would provoke increased undergraduate interest. Though this change is, of course, not felt directly in the Summer School, it is representative of a growing desire in many American universities to alter their curricula in a similar manner...
...study completely on their own during the senior year. Last year Dartmouth instituted a three-semester program which would allow students to take more courses and give them the feeling that college education was not merely a convention that had gone on and would continue in the same ritualized manner decade after decade. Brown is now quite at home in its IC (Identification and Criticism of Ideas) plan, an ingenious scheme of middle-sized seminars for freshmen and sophomores, with reading and discussion of the great ideas which at Harvard are doled out in large General Education lectures...
...widely, who can interpret and analyze what they have read, who can turn out good prose when they are writing for themselves, but who are unable to do the sort of work which receives A's and B's. It is hoped that the new program will in some manner stimulate these men, in President Pusey's words, into "the keenest possible challenge...