Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace" in sophomore tutorial was felt to be too rapid, and the sweep of the subject too large. But far from offering a large, detailed survey, we are at present concentrating on a relatively few major writers in the hope of offering an opportunity for a more selective analysis of them...
...Conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra unrolled the 32-minute work, the audience caught a succession of light, volatile themes. There were times when the composer seemed to pull himself up short-as if in fear of going beyond the party's current rules-breaking the long sweep of a natural development to introduce another melody. There were other times when he dressed up a banal moment with humorous orchestral tweaks and twitches, or suddenly stirred up a bee's nest of climax. Only the fourth movement sounded thoroughly like the old Prokofiev; playfully capering themes rippled...
While this attitude may be defensible for the department's regular program, it is hardly apt when carried over to tutorial work. The fear that sophomore groups might wander off the grand sweep, studying Collycibber instead of Pope, has led the department to climinate self directed tutorial sessions by anchoring them to the hard core, of English 10. The sections of English 10 are the tutorial sessions; the section men are the tutors, and they must necessarily gear their work to that of the course. All groups, therefore, study roughly the same material, at approximately the same speed and diversions...
Captain Al Wills, who turned in a 4:25.9 indoor mile against Yale, will be the big man in the mile. He is backed by Ken Wilson and Norm Hartness, who might provide a sweep...
...another Bell plane, powered with a single, axial-flow turbojet putting out only 4,900 lbs. of thrust. This 32 ft. 4 in. ship weighs less than 10,000 lbs., is the first to have variable-sweep wings (TIME, June 25, 1951). It was built to investigate the aerodynamic effects of different wing angles...