Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freeman in a light and colloquial vein can be terribly amusing. In Come to Izmir he adopts a jaunty sort of irony that mocks the language of travel guides. He has a real gift for conveying the appropriate tone of voice, the proper mood: En Route to Persepolis 330 B.C. displays this talent to good advantage. The poem is in three parts, and Freeman switches roles from section to section; at first he is sage and meditative, then boisterous and lusty...
...Clubs established the Harvard Studentship in memory of Lionel deJersey Harvard '15, a descendent of John Harvard killed in World War I, for a further bond between Harvard College and the college of its founder--Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Like the Fiske Scholar at Trinity, the Harvard Scholar enjoys a proper existence at Cambridge and has an additional stipend for travel on his vacations...
Blanche Thebom turned Queen Elizabeth into a live character. Remarkably natural singing, in spite of the artificial setting of some lines, went with the only really decent dramatic performance. She huffed and puffed as a proper queen should...
...viruses, which are measured in millionths of an inch, were first photographed by an electron microscope that produces an enlarged image of minute particles through the use of a beam of electrons. Working from electron-micrograph prints, Artist Bernard Safran enlarged the viruses somewhat more to obtain the proper effect for the cover. Among those he chose to use, the sticklike viruses at upper left are the tobacco mosaic virus, which figured importantly in early virological discoveries made in the 19th century; the smaller, pellet-shaped viruses at the upper right are polio; the four at the lower right...
...More pertinently, and impertinently, Gideon pleads that his pity for fellow humans is above God's law. He asks the Lord to be released from the "covenant of love." arguing "You are too vast a concept for me." Sadly, ironically, the Lord concludes: Man wants to be "a proper god. You know, he might some...