Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Economics Department has also instituted a Junior Tutorial for Credit, Economics 98, to replace the Junior Honors Course, Economics 100. Four other Economics courses have been dropper from the undergraduate section of the catalogue. Economics 109 and 151, Economic Aspects of Population and Public Finance, respectively, will not be given this year; and Economics 111b and 113b, courses which were not given this year, but which were to be next year, do not appear in the new catalogue...
...said the created economic cross-section in dorms would outweigh the plan's disadvantages...
Under the romantic section, for instance, there are a number of works which represent two emotional points of view. One has to do with assasinations, armies on the march, death incarnate, the bloody and the macabre, the romanticism of doom, while the other is as violently antithetical. The other has to do with maidens in voluptuous idleness, nymphs playing about grassy banks, lush and very saccharine landscapes which exude idyllic reverie...
First of all, these two outlooks are made to be appalling immature. They seem all the more so when the exhibition's "naturalistic" section illuminates a paradox which unites these two emotional extremes. Suddenly all the shouting stops, all the drama ends and rigor mortis begins to set in. The least trickle of spontaneous life is suddenly replaced with the dimmest pedantry. The right word is not naturalistic but academic. Here is a depressing union of the accomplished hand and the earthbound...
...fixed, snaggle-toothed smile. His name Abdul Karim Kassem. On the face of it, Karim Kassem, 44, seems a weak reed on which to rest the free world's hopes. Modest in deportment, moderate in conversation, Kassem is nonetheless inordinately and naively suspicious. (He recently asserted that one section of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad lured Iraqis in with stories that automobiles can be bought there-and then filled them with anti-Kassem talk.) Cursed by shyness and a weak, high-pitched voice, he is sadly lacking in the rabble-rousing skills on which most successful Arab politicians rely...