Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevertheless, there are moments when a whiff of West goes drifting through the theater like a scent of cyanide emitted by a pretty bonbon; and most of those moments involve Maureen Stapleton, a gifted actress from Broadway who, in her first movie role, impersonates a revolting specimen discovered by Miss Lonelyhearts on a "field trip" among his correspondents. But most of the time the spectator is apt to find himself feeling, as Author West puts it, "like an empty bottle that is slowly being filled with warm, dirty water...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving. With Maria Schell...
...aural home base) he has the advantage of manipulating the vocabulary of musical relations and tensions with which most of us are familiar since we have grown up in a world dominated by eighteenth and nineteenth-century tonality. Bartok's tonality is not Mozart's but it is tonality nevertheless, and many of Bartok's devices are familiar nineteenth century formulas...
...recent years, application of the honor system to academic life has stirred up considerable controversy among Radcliffe students and faculty members. Examinations have never been strictly proctored at the Annex, even in the days when 'Cliffies took all exams in Longfellow Hall under Harvard regulations. Nevertheless, students in the early forties campaigned for the right to apply the honor system to final exams. When Dean Mildred P. Sherman proposed the idea to University Provost Paul Buck, he told her it would never work at Harvard, but to "go ahead and try it" at Radcliffe. The Annex went ahead...
...Radcliffe girl ever promises honorable conduct during an exam by signing a statement, a practice termed "high-school" and "as ridiculous as the loyalty oath." Nevertheless, few students have been accused of cheating. In the most recent case, four years ago, a girl was reported to have concealed notes in a box of dried apricots. The accusation was never proven to anyone's satisfaction, and the girl graduated from Radcliffe with her academic honor and her apricot box intact...