Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...articles represent quite different attitudes towards Faulkner's style. To take the more conventional first, Conrad Aiken examines the various peculiarities of Faulkner's writing as semi-deliberate technical devices that may be judged in terms of their effect on the reader. He maintains, to begin: "Mr. Faulkner's style, though often brilliant and always interesting, is all too frequently downright bad." After quoting several horrible examples he complains of the "overelaborate sentence structure"; this complaint, by the way, is in a column of type consisting of five of his own sentences, of median length 67 words...
...helping to finance quarrelsome, divided Europe. "The cookie jar has a bottom to it," said Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley. "We want action, not words." European delegates were left breathless, puzzled and more than a little annoyed. The Americans seemed unwilling to concede that, just as they themselves had semi-official status but did not speak for the U.S., so their fellow legislators represented countries but not governments...
...intellects, first-year champions from Section A. will clash with second-year winners Old D-1. Section D. Last Tuesday, the Intellects downed New F.2, first-year men from Section F. 19 to 0, in the semi-final league contest...
...semi-final game of the Business School's intramural football league yesterday, the Intellects downed New F-2, 19 to 0. The Intellects are first year, section A men, while New F-2 consists of first year men, section...
Delegates from six Ivy League college radio stations met in Cambridge over the weekend for the Ivy Network's semi-annual convention. The Network's University outlet, WHRB, played host to representatives from Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale...