Word: two
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First, that it be voluntary, graded and for credit--in the form, probably, of a half-course running through two terms...
...meeting, the faculty considered three alternative resolutions. Of the other two, one urged that the Corporation not use funds until both the affidavit and oath requirements were removed; and a second--echoing President Pusey's position before he froze the University's NDEA funds last September--that the Corporation "continue to cooperate in the administration of Federal programs aiding education, including those which require a Loyalty Oath and Affidavit of Disbelief...
Unfortunately, the show has many distressing disappointments. Calder, the grand Yankee sculptor whose works have for so long been characterized by their steady high quality, exhibits three mobiles but only one of them displays any of Calder's usual skill. The other two move only under strong provocation (I had to fan them with my notebook close by before they deigned to revolve) and when they finally do go into orbit, the objects don't describe a flexible and communicative arc in space...
Modigliani's Portrait of a Student displays the loosest sort of lyricism into which the Modigliani manner can degenerate. Picasso's two little cubist paintings have little more than the master's signature to recommend them. Their color has no vitality or subtlety and the jumped compositions, especially that of the cramped Bottle and Glass, exemplifies Picasso's carelessness at its most annoying. Carelessness, indeed, sloppiness blemishes a Miro pastel, titled, for no readily apparent reason, Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror. A mysterious and evocative oil painting of his, Composition, done in 1925, has a flow and easiness...
This Saturday afternoon the two upset victims meet in Philadelphia in a game that the Pennsylvania public address announcer at last Saturday's game called "the most important of the season." That billing met with boos and hisses from the Harvard stands, but it must be admitted that the Yale-Penn game is of major importance...