Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Schlemmer's canvas lacks the aristocracy of truly resolved expression. One can even understand how Otto Muller's canvas of the gal who lost her Maiden-form, can get by, utterly lacking, as it is, in substance and the very minimum diginity a work of art ought to possess...
While much bickering among themselves is not altogether uncharacteristic of their calling, these critics have formulated this view in a spirit of remarkable unanimity. On the basis of wide travel in Europe and other estoeric locations, they contend that the four mettropolitan areas they praise possess some sort of cultural maturity they find lamentably lacking in other thriving centres, such as Tulsa, Toronto or Topeka...
...varsity swimming team closes its 1958-59 season this weekend at the NCAA championships at Cornell. Defending champion Michigan will lead the awesome array of powerful midwestern schools, which have much greater talent than even Eastern winner Yale. The Big Ten colleges in particular possess world-calibre swimmers, which should easily beat Yale's contingent...
...limited by the choices of the applicants. In most cases those students who can overcome the prejudice against Harvard that exists strongly around the U.S., come from backgrounds which lean toward or admire the East; and those who are equipped to handle the academic requirements of Harvard usually possess a sophistication which allows them to be easily assimilated into the predominating intellectual atmosphere. The rarity of extreme local accents at Harvard suggests a group of students who are already conscious of and are trying to suppress their regionality. They are further coerced by pressure to eradicate some of the more...
...hard to view riots in New Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland. The natives of the Gothic fen seem to have no objective so clear as the Africans, though they do perhaps possess their own inscrutable reasons for breaking up a premature St. Patrick's Day celebration. Spring may be muddy in Cambridge, but it must be especially lonely in New Haven, and the Yalies probably need to sublimate their seasonal hormonal energy...