Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movies were successes. Alexander the Great was a flop and lost $1,000,000; so was St. Joan, which U.A. somewhat reluctantly backed because the leading lady was unknown. But U.A. has taken the big loss on St. Joan without a murmur because it feels that Producer Otto Preminger was a moneymaker before-with The Moon Is Blue-and will be again. So U.A. will back...
...subject has already survived his biographer (who died last year) and has, since the book reached the stands, created the need for another chapter by leading the nuclear disarmament movement which is now rocking England. Even so, the author often takes too doting an attitude. Most intelligent children are somewhat saddened, for example, when they find that Euclid's axioms cannot themselves be proven; but in the disappointment of the eleven-year old Russell, Wood imagines he sees already adumbrated three volumes of the Principia Mathematica. Nor are his repeated references to Russell as "the greatest logician since Aristotle...
...only complaint that can be made is that her outstanding performance makes Thomas Myers' Alexis look poor in comparison while in reality he is not that bad. He looks like an ill-at-ease student at a military academy, an appearance not suited to a part that calls for somewhat more vigor than he is able to muster. In his duets with Miss Humphreys she consistently steals the scene...
...anyone's attention while they're at Harvard; they're neutral and don't offend anyone. They never give the impression of being in trouble; always being sunny and affable; when they do leave, even their roommates are usually surprised." The life of these people, McArthur thinks, is somewhat vegetable-like. "My guess is that they probably don't get up for breakfast and are apt to cut a lot of classes. These people become tremendously apathetic immediately before they leave, more so than they ever will be again in their lives. Their decision to leave is the fist step...
Carroll F. Miles, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dunster House, has defined somewhat unique reasons for leaving: "The curious type is the student who leaves in January of his senior year. This is a person who is potentially bright but who has done nothing in college. He wants to go away in order that he can come back and have one great year. In some cases, usually seniors, students leave to postpone their occupational choice another year. Of course, sophomore year is the crucial one for most, a natural time to leave...