Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ability to ask simple, direct questions would seem the first thing anyone would teach aspirants for this profession. Are they in fact being so taught...
...ONLY when speaking of great manifold spirit such as Gustav Mahler, Whose preoccupations so forcefully resonate through our own anxieties and reflections, that the music reviewer feels other than epiphenomenal. Only ten does the luckless effort of describing music with words seem somehow more than a vain habiliment of inevitable failure, more than the prose effulgence Reuben Brower meant when he said that "belief in nonsense depends only on suggestive repetition." Perhaps just a half dozen years ago most of us had never heard a note of Mahler's music; I remember my music teacher telling me at age fifteen...
...third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince CRIMSON-reading graders (and there a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting five dollars a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classic and a romantic, but then, so may Dryden, depending on your point of view...In some respects, this statement is unquestionable true, but in other..."On through the night...
What is needed, say critics, is personal leadership by the President to straighten out the SBA, coordinate the tangle of Government programs and enroll the assistance of bankers and other private businessmen. The businessmen seem eager, if only given direction from Washington, to provide markets and managerial help. Indeed, so successful is the National Alliance of Businessmen, which was founded during the Johnson Administration to find jobs for the hard-core unemployed, that Nixon might consider starting a National Alliance of Enterprise through which experienced businessmen could coordinate public and private efforts to get black capitalism going...