Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several possibilities do, however, suggest themselves. In the first place, it is obvious that an effective tutorial program can hardly expect to rely upon GSAS students to any substantial extent. These men are almost always too involved in their own courses and research to dedicate time and interest to undergraduate education. The fact that they do not currently find that tutorial requires more time than they can give is hardly relevant, since they rarely give enough time to make the program significant...
...Although the woodwind and brass sections were unusually strong, the strings were unable to carry their weight; the violins were ragged and the cellos unnecessarily heavy. In a vain effort to keep everyone together, conductor Attilio Poto chose calm and moderate tempi, but these only made the faults more obvious...
When you see a pirate preparing to scuttle you, the obvious thing is to try to stop him in time. Eden glimpsed the Jolly Roger at Suez, and the enormous amount of Russian equipment already captured in the Middle East proved him right. Whether or no the evil day has been averted, it may possibly have been postponed...
...then-with a telephone, a pair of gloved hands, a package addressed to one actor that drives an inquisitive fellow actor mad-the essential idea is fresh, amusing and satiric. Here and there the production embroidery is ingenious and witty. But too often it is obvious that beneath all the sauce piquante there is leftover meat or no meat at all; and in time there results an awful sameness of effect from so many frantic efforts to be different...
...like Banal to say the obvious . . . Why must we chatter fruitlessly and endlessly about philosophy and politics? I confess that I am only interested in questions that touch the heart of another human being-"Who are you sleeping with?"; "What do you take for quick relief from acid indigestion...