Word: precisionism
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Financing house courses may be the biggest obstacle to increasing the number offered. Most of the seminars enroll about 15 students and most are taught by more than one, perhaps as many as seven tutors. "It's self-evident that I couldn't run the whole Gen Ed program this...
THE BOYS IN THE BAND plays all the variations on the theme of homosexuality. Mart Crowley's composition has grace notes of hilarity but ends in a coda of bitter recognitions. Director Robert Moore conducts a finely tuned cast with precision and sensitivity.
In Brinton's seminars and tutorials students learned to expect unremitting pressure for intellectual precision. In both scholarship and literary style, Brinton was demanding. His own work furnished for his students a prime example of diligent historical scholarship presented in a graceful manner.
The center of the house is the sparsely furnished, 67½-ft.-long great hall, used for formal receptions and large cocktail parties. On its walls hang 16 prize paintings by impressionists and postimpressionists, including a voluptuous Renoir Bather, and a darkly rich, superbly foreshortened Degas Girl on a Cushion...
For eight seasons the A.F.L. has been cast in the embarrassing role of Sunday's stepchild. Truth be told, the league deserved its billing. Compared with the precision and poise of the N.F.L., A.F.L. teams have looked slipshod and sophomoric. Their subservience was under scored in the first two...