Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four hour seminar of ten students than in ten individual one hour tutorial sessions. My experience as an auditor in a graduate seminar here leads me to believe that Harvard generally does not understand the seminar system--it is not just a small lecture where the auditors sit around a table. At Swarthmore, students who are taking a well-conducted seminar do not do it in addition to lectures and the attendant cram examinations. The group, which has been carefully selected on a basis of common interest, meets once a week or even bi-weekly in a four to five...
...clay pipes, tobacco ash; in a word, it is the most indescribable muddle. . . . One's eyes are so blinded by coal and tobacco smoke that it is like walking around in a cave until one becomes accustomed to it and objects begin to loom up through the fog. . . . Sitting down is a dangerous business. One of the chairs has only three legs; and the children are playing at cooking on another one which happens to be whole, and which they offer to the guest; so if you sit down it is at the risk of ruining your trousers...
Ronald Colman's role is a wonderfully rich present to an actor who is celebrating his 28th year in movies. In all its blends and alternations of darkness & light and of classical, romantic and modern styles, the part is an actor's dream. Colman sits down to it as a veteran gourmet might sit down to the banquet of a lifetime, and polishes it off, savoring every last morsel, straight through to the crumbs on the tablecloth. His performance is a pleasure in itself, but the real delight is to watch his delight in his job. Colman...
...likely to involve the politicians in a mess of trouble if the wrong people get hold of it. There is much too much standard B-picture intrigue about the diary, and it is hard to work up a healthy interest in either the story or the Senator. You just sit around and wait for another irrelevant gag, and this soon becomes a tiresome business in spite of the charming pretences of Ella Raines and Arleen Whelan. There is no doubt that election politics is a fine field for satire, but here the satire is neither gay nor is it contained...
...that's certain. She's not ready." What would he do before he assumed his duties as president of Columbia University? Ike laughed. His ideas were like those of General Brehon Somervell, he said: "Find a cottage with a rocking chair on the porch and sit there for six weeks or so. After that I'll begin to rock-slowly." (Actually, Ike is going to write his war memoirs...