Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last ten years, patrons of learning have enjoyed Lamont Library. Its 10-15,000 reserve books include the most important reading in undergraduate courses, while the building itself provides space for over 1,000 students. At casual glance, the facilities offered by Lamont seem ample...
Americans appear to regard cultural exchange as a vehicle to penetrate Russia's most neurotic fear of foreign institutions; the Soviets seem to forsee economic cooperation which will hasten the economic advance of Communism--and this difference of viewpoint was clear in the proposals: the United States sought exchange of teachers, students, and ordinary tourists, while the Soviet Union proposed increased emphasis on technology and trade...
Emily Dickinson frequently combines the abstract and the concrete in such images as "amethyst remembrance," and "the blue and gold mistake of Indian Summer," MacLeish noted. By skillful use of tone she is then able to make these sensual counterweights to her ideas seem true...
Most of the climbing scenes will in fact seem preposterous to anyone who has ever done 50 honest feet of Felskletterei. But to the average tree shinnier, for whom this picture is intended, they will surely look authentic and awesome. For the rest, the scenery (Matterhorn, Riffelhorn, Monte Rosa) is as spectacular as any Switzerland can show, and Hero MacArthur, in real life the son of Actress Helen Hayes, is the most wholesome-looking juvenile since...
Michener's gigantic work loses pace in its final section, as the descendants of the New Englanders and their upstart adversaries seem to forget both animosities and identities, and the author drums busily for tourism and statehood (the novel was finished before statehood came last spring). Honolulu Resident Michener strives hard for a lyric quality as the two-party system triumphs and the barons and their onetime vassals sit happily together on the same interlocking directorates. But after all the blood and gusto, such gentle music is hardly audible...