Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play also dragged a good deal out of 19th-century fiction after it. Neurotic young Kostya Triplev wears the musty mantle of European Weltschmerz and Wertherism, and the sea gull, Nina, seems a period heroine who breaks romantically with conventional life, is "ruined" by an interesting older man and exhibits emotions not so much false as several sizes too large for her. Having imported romantic melancholy, Chekhov-being Chekhov-could only in some degree mock its posturings; The Sea Gull remains an uneasy mixture of satire and sentiment rather than a true fusion of the comic and tragic...
...school he was a laggard in mathematics and was put in a special class, where he was made to do sums in his head. The lessons stuck, and he now astounds people with his memory for figures and lightning-like calculations. Schoolmate Sid Richardson, who is five years older, spent his spare time trading cattle. Sid taught Clint so much about cattle trading that Murchison was able to run a crippled heifer into $1,500 by the time he entered Texas' Trinity University...
Curiously out of line with this goal, however, is an older rule requiring honors candidates to count every grade in every course they take in their field, no matter how esoteric the course or how far it may exceed ordinary honors requirements. While a poor grade in a "primarily for graduates" course seldom penalizes a concentrator in fields demanding a thesis and generals, it is often damaging in the sciences, where grades alone are the basis for honors determination. For this reason, many prospective scientists, recognizing the gamble involved, shy away from advanced courses in their field or related fields...
There were three, maybe four people at the bar. The booths were empty, except for one where an old man sat, sipping beer and talking occasionally to an even older colored woman in the chair beside him. The bartender, a balding man with a limp and a hearing aid, rested his back against the counter, his eyes fixed on the television set in the far corner of the room. From time to time he would pick up an empty beer glass and fill it from the tap marked Kruger. The bar was speckled with little pools of beer and small...
Such diverse research is often carried on in collaboration with faculty members and the results passed on to College undergraduates in informal lectures by the older members. Almost every year a Junior Fellow gives a series of talks for the Lowell Institute. Last year, one lectured on mathematics to the philosophy club. And, of greater interest to the University, many go on to teach here. Of the first group of Fellows, three: Garrett Birkhoff, Willard Quinc, and B. F. Skinner, have become Professors at Harvard. Since then a steady stream of members has enriched the faculty. Presently, twenty-five--around...