Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...progress is not always attained in terms of today's conventions and reasonings. Man first tried to fly by flapping birdlike wings, but modern aircraft do not use this principle; nor do modern railroad cars bear much resemblance to the horse-drawn carriage prototypes. There must be a somewhat visionary or even fanciful approach to the future as well as a conventional one." New approaches to knowledge are as out of this world as the moon itself. Its airless environment and its fantastic temperature range make an ideal laboratory for high-vacuum and cryogenic (refrigerants) research; the vast amounts...
...CRIMSON, of course, had to carp somewhat. "J.B. is probably neither great poetry nor great poetic drama," wrote a tough-minded member of the Editorial Board--"although it is good enough in both respects. What it mainly offers for the modern reader is a literate statement of philosophy which finds the middle ground between religious panacea and existentialist despair." This "middle ground" was explained as the fact that "J.B. forgives God. This is not the tragedian's agnosticism or the atheist's bland facility--MacLeish has added to the stature of man at the expense...
...eight short months after John Ciardi had despaired of a major professional production for years to come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived via the egghead circuit." But virtue was rewarded, for J.B. proved...
...relieve these places somewhat and to stimulate an "intellectual atmosphere" at Radcliffe, the six-member Faculty Committee has urged that some tutors meet their students at offices in the 'Cliffe Quadrangle. Donald R. Brown, Head Resident of Holmes Hall, and David M. Bevington, Head Resident of Moors Hall, both now give tutorial at Radcliffe, but ideally even more tutorial should be given there, Dean Elliott said...
...sculptural experimentation in primitive forms, but even here, lyricism, his greatest gift, predominates. From 1911 to 1915, Modigliani was profoundly influenced by Cubist distortion of the human form, and most of his drawings from this period are unsatisfying. In oil paint, the vigor of his rough and somewhat arbitrary compositions is easily expressed but soft and hard graphite pencil on a thin, flexible paper cannot imbue them with the necessary conviction. The scribbly, hectic quality of a piece like La Francaise indicates the extent to which the Cubist treatment of the human form was alien to Modigliani's romantic...