Word: skeletonization
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There is, nonetheless, a skeleton in the closet: it is social democracy. Here is a problem far more perplexing than any arising from the union. Would there be serious consequences from the assignment of one group of students to wait on another? How real is Harvard democracy? They are questions to be raised, not answered now. Doubtless they are bothering both University Hall and the Student Council committee. To conclude that all would be perfectly tranquil is certainly unrealistic; to say that Harvard would be divided into social castes is to subscribe wholeheartedly to New Haven versions of Harvard life...
...centre. A squirrel gnaws at the skull, while from the right the late great Justice Holmes, astride a white charger, levels a lance at the cobweb. In other panels: a ticker-tape Pied Piper leading men to a gambling table, a gangster having a manicure, Humanity sitting in the skeleton of the Past. Critics praised what they could, or like the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell reserved final judgment "until the panels are installed...
...Karson splashed the Rialto's lobby with Frankenstein, Zombis, King Kong, a skeleton dangling from a scaffold, a ghoul sucking a lollipop. On his signature alp (about a foot high), by way of contrast, he put Laurel & Hardy. All are done with skilled caricature, are no screwier than the career of the young fellow who painted them. Son of a former Russian court painter, he came to the U. S. when he was four. At twelve he joined a Chicago little theatre as assistant to its art director...
...along old trolley tracks from the plant to the New Haven Railroad. The air of the whole neighborhood palpitates with the muffled thunder of Wasps and Hornets on test stands in the research buildings. And every six seconds the white finger of the airport beacon flicks over the fleshening skeleton of a huge new factory extension growing from the main plant...
...information handed out by the tutoring schools, however plentiful, however zealously inculcated, strips down to a warped skeleton of data which is only vaguely related to the essence of a college course. When the fatal hour strikes, the cram-stand scholar will find that, in return for his purchasing power, he has a head-bursting mass of detail. When he is asked to demonstrate his understanding and coordination of the material, he will have nothing but facts--and at the most, trite formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae will be enough, but then...