Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discouraging new investment, but there is little question that their criticism of his welfare-at-any-cost policies are much closer to home. In the midst of the attempts to pay current expenses, Williams was reported to be planning a budget increase of $150 million for fiscal 1960. Observers seem to think that he will succeed in bailing out the current debts through borrowing against trust funds, but it does not seem likely that he will get his increase. The state Republicans are willing to let Michigan's troubles hurt Williams even at the expense of the state...
...achieved a way of conducting atomic tests which virtually reduced to nil the amount of fallout and made detection almost impossible. Instead of announcing the achievement as a great accomplishment in helping to reduce radioactive contamination of the world, the government concealed the tests, making the ease of concealment seem much more important and sinister than reduction of fallout...
...concert closed with Webern, as many serialist concerts do; in this case the Three Small Pieces, Opus 11, superbly performed by Judith Davidoff and Rzewski. As usual, Webern made his successors seem rather tentative and shapeless (the exception was Mr. Rzewski's vastly self-assured piece), but he did not detract from their clear achievements, largely in the matters of color and dynamic subtlety. Whether or not the structural question has been answered is problematical. Wolff and others say that sense of direction should not necessarily be looked for in this music, that many works ought to be regarded...
...book's faults are balanced, if not completely overcome, by the esprit of the players, a few good voices, a few fine songs, and a few clever lyrics. The most successful part of Busy Bodies is the cast. Every member seems to enjoy his role and manages to convey this delight to the audience. Even the actors who are supposed to sing, and can't, don't seem to be embarrassed by their inability. Those who can sing do it very well, and though there are no outstanding voices on stage, there are no really unpleasant ones either...
President Pusey agreed with Maass that endowments must precede formation of a department or a chair. It was also pointed out that the University gives a great deal more attention to geography than many people considering the problem seem to realize...