Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play runs somewhat shorter than most Broadway shows; but Schulman wisely refrained from padding it out unduly. If one were to find fault, it would be in the curtain lines that close the several scenes; more thought would have yielded better ones...
Indeed, that ghost and a somewhat inane collection of conversation and childhood incident called "Cousin Jack" are the only real faults of the current issue. Hill, Hickock, Claude McNeal (who edites the magazine along with Hickock) and a couple of the female poets seem to be looking at Eliot as a mentor or an enemy--but not looking beyond him. A bogus character named T.E. Stearns goes on for several pages of Eliot parody--which should have gone out of fashion several decades...
burden to bear. The characters are not content to view each other ironically or come to an ironic realization of self; but Guerard himself is ironic about Anthony, and about reality. And the reader has to be somewhat ironic about Guerard...
...response was nearly unanimous. What they had done was to presume every student to be in the Honors program until he flunked out of it on one of three tests: a sophomore essay, a junior general examination, or a senior examination, probably somewhat more specific in nature than junior year generals. The committee requested that tutroial be increased in importance, that it be counted more heavily in weighing the type of Honors degree with which the student would graduate, and that this tutorial be given on an individual rather than group basis, and by as many ranking Faculty members...
Explorer IV was fired northeast from Cape Canaveral, its course shaving Cape Hatteras and passing just to the east of New England, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The earlier Explorers, fired somewhat south of due east, never came farther north than the latitude of Atlanta, but Explorer IV reaches 51° north. As the earth turns inside its orbit, it will pass over most of western Europe, southern Russia (but not Moscow), all of the U.S. and Japan, most of China, all of the tropics and most of the land in the Southern Hemisphere except Antarctica...