Word: unevennesses
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...summa is a hard-to-get commodity, and the Social Sciences area is the worst place to do the shopping. The recent report to the Faculty on this uneven situation merits consideration and action from those departments which were cited for their relatively high number of summas, as well as from those with a relatively low total. The report revealed that the fields of English, Government, Biochemistry, and especially Economics and History awarded far fewer summas to students who, on the basis of grades, would be qualified, than most fields in the Humanities and Natural Sciences...
...downbeat singers reflect a certain hardening of TV's arteries. The formats have jelled; the entertainment too often looks as mass-produced as the receivers. Production has shifted steadily to Hollywood, where the film factories grind out series after series like links of sausage. Despite its uneven quality this season, Playhouse go proves that Hollywood TV can turn out good live drama as well. But with the move of CBS's Studio One to Hollywood this month, live TV drama has lost almost the last of the roots that nourished it from fertile Broadway soil...
Director Richard Grand and most of his cast have mastered this tone; they maintain an almost perfect balance between the mock-serious and the ham. Some of the principals were weak singers, and the articulation--an important quality in Gilbert and Sullivan--was uneven in both productions. But the G. and S. Players always know what they are doing, and they seem to take pleasure...
...loves, Rivera was always flamboyant and noisy. Often he seemed only a big boy, but that was deceptive. And for the thousands of fellow Mexicans who referred to him affectionately as Diego, there were more thousands who called him Maestro. The second group honored Rivera's art-uneven, grandiose, and yet perhaps the most impressive body of painting ever produced by one man in the New World...
...Jean, the valet, Eugene Gervasi gives an attractive, albeit uneven, performance. The obvious charm which Strindberg has poured into the character is visible, in Gervasi's rendering, but the cultivated polish and the sinister selfishness underneath are not. Nevertheless, when the script offers him a sharp line, Gervasi delivers it with grace and a fine sense of timing...