Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Buck and Ernst are reluctant to initiate a system for checking bursar's cards at the library's entrances, preferring to "discourage" obvious interlopers. However, Ernst said, some sort of policing may soon become necessary, if matters got worse...
...Dostoevsky's characters and settings emerge with much of the brilliance they possessed in the novel, but for the most part, because of obvious time and filming limitations, this is not the case. The most noteworthy of the successes is that of Julien Carette who plays the part of Pierre Marcelin--the film's counter-part of Dostoevsky's unforgettable Semyon Zaharovitch Marmeladov. In his small role, Carette is funny, ridiculous in the grand Dostoevskian manner and yet elicits the viewer's pity and affection with his overwhelmingly human predicament...
...Less obvious but more pervasive was the university's effect upon the state's business community, dominated by Chapel Hill alumni. Under the watchful eye of a benign oligarchy (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Duke Power Co. and the "textile aristocracy"), North Carolina has been developed with uncommon imagination. Business leaders have endowed well-paid professorial chairs, set up string-free foundations, protected professors back at the alma mater from the political censorship common to state-supported Southern schools...
...years ago, cancer was detected by the crude method of waiting for an obvious malignancy to appear. Then Dr. George Papanicolaou of Cornell University Medical College devised his revolutionary method of early detection: smearing body secretions on glass slides for microscopic study of cells. In thousands of doctors' offices, the now standard Papanicolaou technique is to stain cells with polychrome dyes. Seen in the visible spectrum of light, the dyes readily emphasize the structure of malignant cells...
...genuine pathos, of their own. Four-year-old Munro, of the second story in the new book, has no personality; his only identity is his incongruous status as a draftee, and so he fails to attain much of the pathetic quality that Mr. Feiffer attempts with an effort more obvious than usual...