Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with any hard-driving, rhythmic and fast-moving song, but he seems confined by any lyric more tender than The Wreck of the 97. This is a pity, because it means he must be either cut off from a great body of relatively sedate folk songs, or perform them somewhat below the level of their potential. Seeger generally choses to attempt them, but he is a complete success only so long as he keeps the joint jumping...
...about 400 years old. These chairs against the wall are old Italian. This section of the room anyway has a European atmosphere. There is a coffee house in Dubrovnik, which is carved right out of the medieval city wall. Though I couldn't try to duplicate it, it served somewhat as an inspiration for the spirit I wanted. But I don't want to imitate a European coffee house. The Mozart is a Cambridge cafe. I want it unique. I am not in competition with others and I don't think a valid comparison can be made between the Mozart...
...upon just the right way of moving and talking. His is a well-observed and, at the end, even sympathetic piece of acting. Only one minor cavil could be raised: one or two of his lines cannot be understood. As the two policemen, William Gurton and Charles Potter are somewhat eclipsed by McKirdy's role and performance, but they nonetheless acquit themselves with credit...
...part of Julie is a large one--almost operatic in intensity at times. Mikel Lambert does not quite fulfill these moments, but during the quieter passages of the play she performs satisfactorily. In the last of the play's speaking parts, that of the maid Kristin, Danute Adomkaitis suffers somewhat from stiffness...
Many U.S. and British scientists have visited Russia and come back with glowing accounts of Russian science. Nuclear Physicist Donald Hughes of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, makes a somewhat different minority report. Invited by the Russians, he spent two weeks in Russia last July, where he lectured on his specialty, neutron physics. He visited six laboratories in Moscow and one in Leningrad, talked through interpreters with many Russian scientists and had a good chance to examine their scientific apparatus...