Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief function of the Office will be to check on departmental recommendations for appointments. Thus much of the favoritism and prejudice that play so large a part in this system at present will be eliminated. The Dean's Office should now be able to collect supplementary information on candidates for promotion. It should be able to obtain unbiased, expert appraisal of their publications. And, perhaps most important of all, it may have the chance of knowing personally the men in various departments. In a word, the Dean's Office should become, as the Committee hoped it would, "a centralized file...
...Much criticism has been leveled, heretofore, at President Conant for the methods he has employed to gain the ends outlined in other parts of the Committee's Report. His firing of ten Assistant Professors last spring because the Committee recommended the abolition of the position is a case in point. But here at least, both ends and means must be above all reproach...
There is not much more to the plot, and the comedy arises more from well selected epithets and a number of choice expressions and apt phrases than from comedy of situation. This type of humor is bound to pall at times, and it does in this play in the third act. What might be called the "heart of gold scene" is not good, and the "denouncement" is worse, but in such a criticism one tends toward carping...
...quality." Her "overweening ego" has now "made her life to my feeling ugly and her human relations and work ridiculous." Gertrude's brother Leo, once her idol, shared his disgust. Said he in a letter to Hapgood: "When Jesus said, 'Verily, verily,' the second verily added much to the expression. But if He had said, 'Verily, verily, verily, verily, verily, verily, verily, verily,' it wouldn't have been so good...
...people know much about Machiavelli except that he sired the sinister adjective Machiavellian. Even those who know a little more differ widely about him. Some, like Ralph Roeder (The Man of the Renaissance), consider Machiavelli an Italian patriot and his Prince a kind of Mein Kampf of Italy's struggle for unity. Others, like Author Valeriu Marcu, consider Machiavelli a single-track political mind whose curious obsession with the pure mechanics of power is his first-class ticket to genius...