Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally confirmed David Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Taft shared credit for the first job and blame for the long delay in the Lilienthal case. Under the whip of Arthur Vandenberg, the 80th had backed the "bipartisan" foreign policy. Whether that backing would continue would depend somewhat on President Truman, somewhat on domestic politics. There were signs that the honeymoon was going stale...
...Wilhelm Weitling, a tailor's apprentice, one of the few proletarians who has ever become an intelligent Communist leader. Marx falsely accused Weitling of being a literary crook and hounded him to the U.S. Another target was Ferdinand Lassalle, brilliant founder of the German Social Democratic Party. Marx somewhat inconsistently referred to Lassalle as "Baron Izzy" and "the little Jew." Another victim was Michael Bakunin, an ardent Russian anarchist who threatened Marx's, control of the First International (founded in 1864 in London). Marx charged Bakunin with shady financial dealings and with being a Czarist agent. He could...
Write Sorrow on the Earth must be described as a "secondary" novel, in the sense that it would probably never have been written if Malraux and, to a lesser extent, Hemingway, had not broken similar ground in a somewhat similar way. It also shows one chief lack within itself: it does not have much of the kind of energy which usually distinguishes powerfully talented novels. Yet it shines bright and steady beside many novels which have such energy. It has none of the death-neurosis or neurotic heroics of Malraux; none of the softness of Steinbeck or Hersey; none...
This fact makes somewhat more hopeful the College's situation of overwork and jangled nerves described recently by Dean Bender. Current employer and graduate school pressure for exceptional grades is causing all but the best study methods to buckle in the middle. Undergraduates who now find themselves developing blind staggers while jamming for finals will be doing the bright thing if, early in the summer of fall term, they check with the Bureau on just how much return they get on those many foot pounds of energy expended in the Reading Room...
Kroeber will give two half-courses, the first for undergraduates and the second primarily for graduates. During the fall he will conduct Social Relations 22 on "The Nature of Culture," a course not originally scheduled for next year. In the spring he will have Social Relations 222, a somewhat similar course for graduates...