Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Department: Walz, Howe, Lieder, Cawley older men in the department who are authorities in their field but tend to be rather uninspiring to undergraduates as lecturers. Starck--clear lecturer, con- genial. Heffner--stimulating, gives the literary angle. Nolte--good tutor (especially for divisional), knows his literature, material somewhat disorganized in German 6. Herrick--stimulating personality. Hawkes--progressive, interesting, good in composition courses. Cross--brilliant and interesting, the power of the Department. Vietor--good lecturer. Shelley--good younger tutor
Goodwin interprets his part with the utmost care, the only possible objection being that he may be a little too assiduous. For the emotion stays pretty close to the surface, and therefore Goodwin's elaborate explanations with hands and voice are somewhat gratuitous. Bettina Gray may likewise be a little too vehement. Perhaps the difficulty is that they are designing their speeches to carry farther than their tiny playhouse permits. At any rate, this excessive elucidation insures that the right interpretation be given. Lois Hall is ideally supple for her part of the sculptress. When throbbing in response to some...
...good second-rate apartment hotel on Park Avenue. In this sense, indeed, it is a universal work, and while he should have been casting the spell of poverty and misery, he lets his love of dialogue run away from him, and the momentary humor of back talk of somewhat Chick Salian hue masks the enduring tragedy of the problem under discussion...
...adopted the slogan "Dynamic Detroit" was mildly embarrassed when its city's panic precipitated the closing of all the banks in the U. S. in 1933. For the past two years, however, Detroit's sportsmen have cooperated with the reviving automobile industry in making the boast sound somewhat less preposterous. In addition to the best baseball team (Detroit Tigers), best professional football team (Detroit Lions) and, in the opinion of experts, the best prizefighter (Joe Louis) in the U. S., the city contains the Detroit Red Wings who were last week engaged in a three-out-of-five...
Piers, Lord Sparkenbroke, was a dazzling child with the mark of genius on his pallid brow. Because of an intense experience in his childhood, his poetic imagination took on a somewhat morbid tinge: he worshipped love, life and death as aspects of a trinity. This attitude, with his handsome face and title, made him a devastating lover but an unsatisfactory husband. While his adoring wile and son lived for his infrequent visits home, Sparkenbroke loved, suffered and wrote in his villa in Italy, with his valet, a kind of super-Jeeves, as his only steady companion. Though apparently he wrote...