Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beardsley's subject matter is original and imaginative enough, with its grotesque women, debauched men, cavorting gnomes and malevolent dwarfs, but his technical approach to these appears off-hand, and insufficiently inventive. Though no design in this show is incompetent, most lack the power they might have had if Beardsley had been a little more adventurous and a little less facile. Even the fine Ali Baba, the epitome of gourmanderie, bulging with corpulence, could have used a more radical treatment. As it is, one finds it a very excellent, but conventional, treatment of an extremely unconventional subject...
However, no matter what the result, this game will have no effect on the Crimson's Ivy League record, for Brown's lacrosse team is recognized by the university as a student activity and not subsidized by the athletic department...
Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, prepared an order requesting that Long be invited to discuss the matter at the next council meeting. But in a state of parliamentary confusion, the council, over which vice-Mayor Vellucci presided, adjourned leaving much unfinished business, including the DeGuglielmo order...
...five-to-ten-minute affair for Bill. He never had a formal biology course, and quite a bit of the general aptitude tests are based on biology. He said, 'Oh, I got a book and read it.' He can see right to the crux of a matter. He'll be a great research...
Politics was not the only problem that ever bothered Larry Adler. For a long time there was the matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...