Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty-exchange program carried on with the University of Massachusetts. But possibly even more pleasing would be the sight of young Japanese scholars pursuing knowledge with Yankee vigor. When frostbite threatens in a Hokkaido lecture hall-outside temperature sometimes reaches 40° below and that indoors is often only somewhat more temperate-the sufferer rushes outdoors, rubs his ears hard with snow, then bundles right back to resume his notetaking...
Zhivago's tragedy is somewhat confused by Pasternak's limitations as a novelist. This is his first novel. He is a poet, and during the Stalin era of literary frigidity, he devoted himself to Russian translations of Shakespeare. As a poet, he has been schooled to write from a single point of view, a single consciousness ranging on a variety of subjects or focusing on one. Most poetry is characterized by this synthesis of artist and the created personality. For poetry, it is basic; for the novel, it can be disastrous. The fusion of Zhiva-go and Pasternak admits...
Caught in his shorts by a Swedish photographer, portly Jazzman Louis Armstrong, his anger largely mock, responded with a Marquess of Queensberry pose most likely to invite a snappy right cross. Later, somewhat more warmly garbed, Satchmo grabbed horn and handkerchief, strutted from his dressing room to wow 3,000 cats in frosty (45° below zero), far-off Umea (pop. 17,000) with a rafter-ringing set of fine old stomping tunes...
...somewhat smaller degree of success in the recent K. of C. meet gave the varsity a warning of what may be coming later in the season. Yale was outstanding in both the one-mile and two-mile relays, in the former event handing the Crimson its first K. of C. loss in six years...
Prospects for the upcoming contest are somewhat uncertain. George C. Carrion '99, dean of Boston sportswriters, is on record as predicting "Harvard by at least a hundred points," but Crimson coach MacPurty stated yesterday "My form sheet shows Chicago by 26. I don't see how we could possibly win unless we used assistant coaches Courtney and Rittenberg...