Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subscriber Riddle, acute, observant, fear for "TIME'S Typical Style" because he scents plagiarists, pirates, copycats. TIME has created no set, wooden "style," which could be aped, but instead strives toward that future medium of expression in which words shall be best fitted to deeds. TIME welcomes progress-by whomever made-toward this goal...
...seems to be a well established tradition among Advocate and Lampoon reviewers that what damning is to be done must be done through the medium of faint praise. Not as a mark of disrespect of tradition, but merely by way of a change, the present reviewer would like to attempt the experiment of stating his criticism as such, thus relieving whatever praise may be forthcoming, from the taint of faintheartedness or hypocrisy...
...story has not grown in stature since Adami transcribed it, nor has the music. It remains a rather unhappy medium between Camille and Sappho-with the fancy lady in this particular case called Magda, her paunchy patron-Rambaldo, the innocent youth for whom she flies her love-nest-Ruggiero, and for comic relief-a maid, a poet. Unlike Camille & Sappho the comic relief wins out, Ruggiero's intentions prove a little too honorable-and the swallow flies back home. Unlike the earlier Puccini scores, the element of tragedy is missing from the soft, curving arias and duets. Unlike Monte...
Inasmuch as the Yale Student Council and the Yale undergraduates cannot strike a happy medium between Faculty supervision and no supervision, it might be pointed out that the former as practiced at Harvard is certainly the lesser of two evils. While it is generally admitted that the Faculty of any university would free itself from what it considers a disagreeable duty, yet the artificial standards by which modern learning must unfortunately be protected seem to demand it. As for the undergraduates, the majority of whom are honest, they can and do remain personally indifferent to what machinery...
...start next autumn, will be under the joint direction of the Hall executors and the faculties of the two universities. This equitable distribution of supervision cannot fail to promote an exchange of scholars and students profitable to East and West; Chinese culture will be studied through the direct medium of the Chinese tongue, and the American methods of research will in a similar manner be transmuted to Peking...