Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students in English A-1, Ciardi is just about the perfect writing coach. Affable, sincerely interested, seldom contesting his students' aims but dealing with their methods and treatment, Ciardi's criticism of the short stories that make up the bulk of the courses is often a formulation of the writer's own vague misgivings, and hardly ever clashes with the writer's own standards and opinions. Ciardi tries to steer his students down the middle road. Personal standards are indispensible; but on the other hand, the "purpose of writing is to be read" and prose must be communicative...
Rarely is an actor able to give a thoroughly delineated portrayal of complex character in a classical drama after such a short rehearsal period as the Tributary schedule affords. Lack of time, and the shortage of experienced actors which forces some of the leading players to take as many as three or four principal parts during the Festival, can explain some of the disturbing innovations of the productions. At times the tragedies can become almost unbearable to one with any preconceptions of the drama...
...gallows. Said Mrs. Gould: "That execution was so horrible that after it, the hangman committed suicide,* one of the wardresses who was present went mad, and the chaplain had a very bad nervous breakdown; and every single person who was present left the service within a very short time...
Tempers Shortened. Expedition members learned what others have learned about enforced habitations: tempers grew short, and whole meals went by with no one saying a word. But there was no sickness-only broken arms and collarbones and frozen toes. Physicist Peterson hurtled down a 110-ft. crevasse. There he stayed for twelve hours, his arms & legs pinioned. But when his companions hauled him out, he had only scratches and bruises, happily babbled: "Boy, am I glad to see youl...
...commission contained one pacifist, the Venerable Percy Hartill, Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent, who registered his disapproval of any kind of modern war in a minority note. But the report itself gave short shrift to his view: "There are those who say that the solution is to counter aggression by love. Ultimately that may be true. But is it applicable to the problem that confronts us? ... A nation that by disarmament rendered itself defenseless would not be assisting in the prevention of aggression, which is the only way to preserve justice in the world...