Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simplest, most straightforward level, the Agassiz Cup story is characteristic because it's about crew--the sport that in 1929 helped bring Smithies, a 22-year-old Australian law student, the great-grandson of the first Methodist minister in western Tasmania, a Rhodes Scholarship. Finding England "too structured for my taste," Smithies went on to discover "the fleshpots of the United States" with a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Model A Ford, earn a quick Harvard doctorate in economics, return to Australia briefly to work in its treasury department, then settle in the United States for good...
...calls "the sensitive weave" of the work's overall design. His Albrecht in Giselle, for example, is a coltish kid in love with the idea of love, touchingly unable to comprehend that, as a nobleman, he just cannot have this terrific peasant girl. He excels at shrewd, straightforward comedy. In Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs, the dancers appear to be on ice skates. Misha seems about to fall over backward at times-a mime performance that Marcel Marceau might envy. Perhaps his greatest tour de force so far is Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme...
WOODS HOLE--Most students who get to Harvard know how to get A's. The route to a summa is grueling but straightforward. The rules are as subtle as Mao's sayings--both make demands like "Work hard and you will get much done...
...cheap by a couple of former U.S.C. film students. In addition to 2001, it was inspired by Silent Running and Destination Moon, films whose special effects are copied and whose plots are used for an uneasy synthesis. The film tries to be both a satire and a reasonably straightforward fantasy adventure, and does not really succeed at either. The script is too clumsy to be effective at mocking, and the movie's lunges at direct humor-like the dwindling supply of toilet paper-are jejune...
Room and board raises are determined according to a fairly straightforward system and hence are worked out first; the raises are designed simply to run the undergraduate rooms and dining halls on a break-even basis...