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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the Leverett gift, however, the chairmen of the College-wide drive have decided to extend solicitation until Monday, since "only three-quarters of the undergraduate body has been contacted and we are still short of our goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Gives 'Unprecedented' $100 Gift to Combined Charities | 12/6/1958 | See Source »

...been noted with disapproval in many quarters. The New Statesman's Moscow correspondent reports that "opinion is being widely expressed that the author has been too sweeping in his attacks on the Moscow literary intelligensia." Most significantly, the Writers Union, which read Pasternak out of its ranks a short time ago, criticized Kochetov sharply for unfavorable distortions of the intellectual's role...

Author: By Philip Nutmeg, | Title: The Totalitarian Squelch | 12/6/1958 | See Source »

...arrives at a quality which most of his Teutonic contemporaries generally lack--a naive loveliness, (the word used wholly in complimentary fashion.). The same goes for Susanna and the Elders or Imperial Palace. But when he draws, or tries to draw, his linear Knight, the result is nothing short of inexcusable...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Yoshiaki Shimizu | 12/6/1958 | See Source »

...rest of this issue fall short, in varying degrees, of the quality of the four pieces mentioned above. Sandy has another poem, "Vale," of "the morning after" variety. Some good metaphors lose out to bad ones and hazy grammar. "We See No Phoenix," by Jonathan Revere, is confused by inconsistent metaphor, though some bright colors and clear rhymes save it from dullness...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: The Advocate | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...Notes on the Demise of Charon" by Sandy Kaye has precise sounds and three minutely detailed images and is static. The short story by Mary Kaye, too highly stylized, provokes no emotions except near the very...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: The Advocate | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

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