Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel stage plan and somewhat reduced dimensions mark the plans for the Loeb Drama Center, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. A lack of funds and the need for "flexibility" in the Center brought modification of the original specifications proposed last Spring...
...main stage will be 35 feet deep with a proscenium height of 25 feet. The proscenium itself can be widened to 60 feet, while the stage house has a total height of 65 feet. Flexibility remains most important; "We have played down audience comfort and sight lines somewhat to make the auditorium more flexible," Myer commented...
...latest in the Brattle's series of Bogart thrillers (Bogie plays the unseen, unheard Father-Confessor) is a somewhat low-budget cinema version of Thomas Mann's last novel. In The Confessions of Felix Krull, Mann presented a highly amusing account of one aspect of the Teutonic mind. His Felix Krull is a magnificently amoral charcater; his portrayal of Felix's life is exciting enough to stimulate readers to enter the Harvard confidence game...
...personal income. ¶Farmers are especially sensitive to the inflationary effects of big-labor wage boosts and to Senate revelations of union corruption, and this may well be a sleeper issue working in the Republicans' favor. Yet in Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, the labor issue has been somewhat offset because right-to-work proposals appear on the ballot-to the distress of Republican candidates and the delight of Democrats, because right-to-work prompts organized labor to spend vast amounts of money in registration drives that usually work to Democratic advantage...
...says. Southerners searching for a clue to his approach to desegregation could find it in a 1956 decision in which he rejected the Hillsboro (Ohio) school board's contention that, to avoid overcrowding, integration should be postponed until a new school building was completed: "The avoidance alone of somewhat overcrowded classrooms cannot justify segregation of school children solely because of the color of their skins.". The quality that a judge needs above all, as he sees it, is fairness: "Fairness is really what justice...