Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance of Philip Harvey as Sir Colenso Ridgeon, the physician, is competent on the whole. He brings to the role the proper amount of dignity, which, however, tends at times to lapse into stiffness. Edith Iselin, who plays the artist's wife, suffers from something of the same trouble. Miss Iselin possesses a quite imposing stage presence, but in this production the emotions which she should be portraying seem swathed in a coating of ice. Her delivery is, if anything, too careful, and she shows too little willingness to vary her rather stately tempo of speaking...
...insists on a firm discipline in the facts for any flight of fancy or supposition. "Everything of true worth in other periods of art can be found in the Greek. It is also more reasonable, yet the eye and the reason are both equally satisfied. In the classical period proper, the fifth century, man is most noble and most knowing, not hoping or relying on anything beyond death, and recognizing the loneliness of man with courage. This is the genius of Greek art, its glory lies in its acknowledgement of life's essential futility and a system of images that...
...almost forgotten sport achieved its proper place on the Harvard scene this winter. After a decade's hibernation, the varsity basketball team woke up, and reinstated itself as a fitting representative of America's most popular game...
...been found that can be imported to prey upon them. In spite of quarantines that may be declared against them, the ants will probably spread as far as climate will permit, perhaps as far north as southern Pennsylvania. But they can be checked in towns, fields and pastures by proper poisoning methods. This can be expensive. Said one disgruntled householder in Montgomery, Ala. last week: "When my monthly chlordane bill equals my house payments, I'm going to sell and move north...
Green cited Dean's office hostility as the major cause of the movement to disband. He stated that this attitude, combined with certain "financial considerations," has made it impossible for the HDC to operate on the large scale proper for a college wide organization...