Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University struck at the drama during the 20,2, when President Lowell proclaimed the policy that. "Drama has no place at Harvard," and since that time it has not changed its strict laissez faire attitude. Long before that time it was obvious that a highly-developed drama-arts school was persona non grata in the college curriculum. Under the late, revered Professor George Baker, the Club, and the drama course that was then an adjunct to it, molded a nation-wide reputation for Harvard theatricals. But in the fall of that year, the Dramatic Society was set on its wanderings...
Deputy commander of the expedition is Major General Mark Wayne Clark, 46. A graduate of West Point, tall, poker-stiff Mark Clark fought in France in World War I, is known as a strict disciplinarian and a thoroughgoing soldier. His creed: every U.S. fighting man should be taught to fight with any weapon, and from a tank, a truck, a boat or on foot-especially on foot. Clark's grouse is that the army is becoming road-bound. Offensive-minded, he has talked often and pointedly about a second front. "The sooner the better," he summed...
...better housekeeping. Children spend part of their day in school, part learning chores. As payment for instruction, house and land, each family returns part of its produce to the school-half the crop on bottom lands, a third on hillsides. In choosing his students, Dr. Andy has observed two strict rules: he admitted only families that 1) had many children, 2) agreed to move on after five years to apply their learning on farms of their...
...Reverend Mr. Perkins recalled Herrick's warmth and generosity (it was his custom to donate a shell to the crew every year) and his strict following of the sportsman's code...
...surface, but, actually, a taste for real jazz usually takes more time and effort to acquire than a feeling for Beethoven. The circumstances that begat the two different types have, in this discussion, nothing to do with the case. Most jazzmen would be amazed at the similarity between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz has to depend on a rare...