Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best student writing both at Harvard and at Radcliffe, but the more poor stuff is published, the fewer writers will contribute. It is up to Signature itself to break the vicious circle by campaigning for the material, and its new contest is an important step. But the editors' obvious fear of being called neurotic or esoteric, coupled with their desire to print trash on the assumption that it will appeal to the non-literary student, limits them to the banal and the unimaginative. They would do well to forget about drama and poetry issues, windy articles and superficial literary crusades...
...Horn's finding pointed an obvious moral for air travelers: don't fly with a pilot who has just had a crash. For airlines and pilots, that conclusion poses a dilemma. How can the pilot get back his confidence unless he flies? Horn suggests that a crashed pilot should go through a comeback course of supervised flying with a copilot. If his jitters are severe, it may help to talk out his trouble under a "hypnotic" drug...
Central figure in the evening's work was Jerry Kilty, who brought to the role of Falstaff an outstanding comic talent combined with obvious understanding of the multi-faceted role and all its problems. As any Falstaff must, he carried the play on his shoulders: when he was on stage, the production moved out of the limits of Sanders and its audience and into the universal comic meaning of the part. He brought entertainment, and, too, originality and finesse to such speeches as "Banish Jack.." and "Honour...
...neurotic-than other people. Dr. Wertham has also found that Negroes' mental troubles, though aggravated by their underprivileged status, are essentially no different from those of his wealthy private patients. "The only difference," he says, "is that here in Harlem the trouble is much more naked and obvious. . . . What the Negro needs, and what psychiatry must help him find, is the will to survive in a hostile world...
...Compromise. What accomplishment can these experimentalists show? Spearhead writers are generally distinguished by devotion to what they consider standards of great art. In love with words, scorning the cheap and obvious, aiming for goals that often seem peculiar and are always unpopular, they have resigned themselves to a precarious existence on the outskirts of the U.S. literary world...