Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second halt was almost totally one-sided. While the Engineers were buoyed by the knowledge that they, at least, could move the ball, the Crimson often seemed to be going through the motions, waiting for a bad afternoon...
Such an attitude, which has often been missing in this country because of a sweeping concern for "practicality," links science with the humanities in the tradition of European universities...
...other hand, "there's no doubt that on the whole American actors and directors take their job much more seriously and devoutly than English ones do... I admire this unreservedly.... The result when it's seen onstage is nearly always exciting, but you often get the feeling that the whole thing has been cooked up in a hermetically sealed oven. But that is the defect of a great virtue, which is work, work, work...
...punch with the populace in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room, Tynan ranged, on request, all over the theatrical map. Discussing playwrights unjustly neglected on the commercial stage, he nominated Brecht first of all, added Ibsen, Pirandello and Wedekind, and commented that "Giraudoux has been not neglected, but so often misinterpreted that it's worse than neglect." Jean Genet to Tynan is "a natural, who shouldn't be imitated... He's a bad model but an interesting artist"; Eugene Ionesco is "bright as a button, but he's not a messiah of the drama...
Speaking last night on "Academic Freedom and the Stated Objectives of the Veritas Foundation," Colonel Laurence E. Bunker '26, ranged from "professors who spread the Communist line--often combined with a charming humanitarianism--without tagging it as such," to "the total warefare--economic, cultural, psychological--today being waged by the Communist conspiracy...