Word: somewhat
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Probably the most important factor that could militate against a Crimson win tonight is the insidious psychological danger of overconfidence. Last year, under somewhat similar circumstances, an undaunted Northeastern five ignored the press notices and irreverently dumped the varsity...
...scene and animated it. Helped by extremely good acting, Director Elia Kazan has given the play a full-bodied, full-businessed stage life. A moment is tense, a scene is touching, the author obviously cares, the general effect is thoroughly his own. Yet the general effect has a somewhat ploppy, India-rubberlike impact. Playwright Inge's most definitive quality-his feeling for human lostness-becomes a little too insistent. It does not emerge from the characters; it tends, instead, to shape them. In the circumstances, the play's very title becomes too overt...
...consternation she refuses: "I have dedicated my life to my art." Having already seen the overdressed girlie show she works in, a Western viewer may be somewhat confused by her attitude. But Brando has to pretend to take the situation seriously, and it plainly bores him. He has some fun now and then monkey-see-monkey-doing like the Japanese, but he seems to find it unsatisfying to have to scratch himself through a kimono...
GEORGE WASHINGTON, by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth. The seventh and concluding volume of the massive work that Historian Douglas Southall Freeman did not live to finish. Somewhat woodenly written, it is still a competent completion of the most searching and definitive life of George Washington ever undertaken...
...distance events, the picture is somewhat brighter. In Reider, sophomore Ed Martin, and cross country captainelect Dyke Benjamin, McCurdy has a strong, smooth-riding trio who can be counted on to score high against any opponent. Moreover, junior Willie Thompson rates only slightly behind these three...