Word: matter-of-fact
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...feat, handled with some sprightliness by Life, was ground to a fine, dry powder, and in only a few sentences at that. This, however, is only the most notorious example of the book's sterility. For the editors of 321 there seemed to be no mean between the matter-of-fact and outlandish gaucherie. Perhaps the only attempt at literary imagination had to do with the Radcliffe girl. It was apparently a parody of stream-of-consciousness writing and involved the endless repetition of the phrase "faces in the crowd...
...Major, Prokofiev D-Major, and Bee-thoven C-Minor. More laurels to Dunster pianist Robert Freeman for the impeccable and consistently compelling performance that we have come to expect of him. Violinist David Spencer, a Wesleyan junior, left much to be desired. His playing lacked tension, was matter-of-fact and on the surface, and at times harsh and out of tune. He is definitely no Heifetz or Hurwitz...
...pair of surgical scissors. The two-inch lump was placed in a pneumatic tube, and 45 seconds later it had traveled 2,000 feet to the laboratory. There before another camera, a pathologist examined it under a microscope, ticking off the tumor's characteristics in a matter-of-fact tone. At this point the tension was fever high. Was the tumor cancerous? The pathologist finally said, hesitantly at first, then with conviction: "It's benign. Yes, it's benign...
Heartbreak's strength comes partly from Director Jacques Dupont's almost matter-of-fact attention to reinforcing detail: a mustached machine-gunner tensely wetting his lips as he waits for his comrades to advance; the primitive clutter of a front-line trench. It flashes with moments of strange, sunlit beauty that almost belie the shocking truth of man diligently preoccupied with killing man. There are also lighter moments-with Gallic, wine-happy R & Rs (Rest and Recuperators) in Japan. But Director Dupont never strays far from the terrible business that carried him, the French battalion and the tens...
From another college source comes a less matter-of-fact appraisal. "A number of professors hero are now feverishly trying to obtain positions elsewhere, and many expected to resign in the near future. Department heads and administrators also admit that it is going to be difficult to recruit new members for the faculty in the near future." The same source expresses deep anxiety over the expansion of political control if Governor Herman Talmadge makes good his threat to make public schools "private schools" in order to contravene the Supreme Court's recent anti-segregation decision...