Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Higher education today is too often characterized by a trade-school approach to knowledge. More and more students now rush through a prescribed curriculum as quickly as possible, treading a narrow tight-rope to a job or a professional school. In this era where mere factual knowledge frequently serves as an index of intelligence, the University has symbolized the broad intellectual maturation that learning should...
...Vice President Nixon is all you say that he is, he is ready for translation from this plane . . . No mere mortal is, could be, or could do everything that Mr. Nixon is reported to be and to have done...
...week Ruth Draper, 69, began a "farewell Broadway engagement"-while remarking that "the farewell engagement is a standing joke in the business." All the same, it was a reminder that an irreplaceable theater figure would not be an eternal one. Ruth Draper has soundly insisted that she is no mere monologist or diseuse; she describes herself as a character actress. In any case, she is with every slightest word, gesture and accent the character she is portraying. And with amazing, quick changes, she can be a featherbrained society woman, a bewildered immigrant, a spare, porch-sitting down-easter, a whole...
...question, calling for several pages of answer, is a pure horror. The reason for this is clear in their contorted faces as they put pen to paper . . . They are semiliterate in a sense . . . they can read, but they cannot write. They cannot spell, punctuation is quite beyond them, the mere formation of a written word troubles them...
Samuel Green is head of Wesleyan University's art department, considers himself an amateur. His thoughtful realism, at the opposite pole from Motherwell's work, creates an effect of mere niggling or near magic, depending on the viewer...