Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play should be a comedy, and often is. But Mr. Ginsburg had three or four too many minds working at once, and he drops in unfortunate streaks of tragedy and melodrama. Much of this seems due to unwillingness to write his own play--he lets history control too much of the plot, and too rarely selects or rejects events or details. He makes a sprawling leap into the life of the prince regent (the future King George IV) of England, and hopes, evidently, that a comedy with serious scenes and historical validity will emerge. Instead, he creates an amorphous opus...
...behind--not geographic--but nuclear boundaries and refusing the less destructive but more practical use of conventional forces. Britain has a very real faith in the power of nuclear deterrents, yet the road of preventive armament is a very narrow and dangerous one, and one which history proves more often wrong than right...
...total scope of knowledge increases, the problem of man's willingness and capacity to broaden himself in relation to these increases is of major importance. Oppenheimer pointed out that most learning processes of a scholastic nature tend to slow down greatly after one's formal education is over, and often it is only the shock of an A-bomb explosion, for instance, which makes one aware of the tremendous changes in our modern physics...
Toepfer said that experience has taught him that qualities of "well-roundedness" and adjustment are not necessarily those that will guarantee high achievement. The Admissions Office does not lower its academic requirements for campus leaders, who often lack the "purpose and toughness of mind ... needed for success in law and life...
Lang asserted that "there is no evidence that the insects enter the Band offices from the Union." Furthermore, he added that the Band office "very rarely has insect problems, certainly no more often than in any other University building...