Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smit, 36, performed by the Boston Symphony under Charles Munch. The work, which was four years in the writing, is solidly constructed and pricked by a series of adroit, Stravinsky-like dislocations of rhythm. The strings are almost continually and often trickily active -so much so that they tend to drown out the detail of other instruments and blur the musical ideas...
Most of the strontium 90 created by past bomb tests is still in the stratosphere or in the soil, but it will tend to move for years into human bones. If no more large tests are made, the Columbia men figure, the average human bone should contain, by 1970, about 1.3 micromicrocuries of strontium 90 per gram of calcium. This is eleven times the present amount...
Gustave Wolf, whose paintings can be seen at the Gropper Gallery, worked in two styles: one, a religious, mystical manner reminiscent of Blake, and the other a rather academic approach. The designs and allegories a la Blake lack the English man's fluidity. They tend to be cramped and a little stiff, although decorative and full of imagination. The best pictures are the self-portraits in the second style. Others of these academic attempts do not escape the abyss of the artist's Germanicism. For example, the painting of the French town of Carcasonne looks like...
Even so, state courts are hesitant to take actions which might tend to weaken the power of local school committees, or to set themselves up as "super school committees." Shaplin is by no means certain that his group will win its case, but he has a strong conviction that the school committees have too much power. At present the Dean has begun a survey of school legislation in other states as the basis for making proposals to the General Court urging the strengthening of state control over the public school system. In any case, the present controversy will have served...
...varsity was visibly hampered by the exceptionally hot Navy courts which tend to make drop and corner shots more who have played most of their squash on the standard cold courts, like those in difficult to execute, especially for men Hemenway Gymnasium...