Word: unevennesses
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...often happens, when the boys in Hollywood get hold of a picture with a message they work so hard on the sermon that they spoil the picture. The Blackboard Jungle could have been a fine movie, but as it stands now it is an uneven one. It has tried just a little too hard both to shock and to preach...
Once in effect this system would soon be accepted as readily as the present arbitrary assignment of freshmen Yard dormitories. The stigma of not "getting the first choice" would disappear, along with cliques of dissatisfied people and uneven distribution...
...Housemasters have shown by their repeated attempts to revise the system that they recognize its weakness. Rather than correcting the present uneven distribution, however, the new system does little more than drop the 70 percent ruling. The Masters have recognized even before their plan starts that it is bound to fail, and have accordingly provided for a committee of deans to iron out differences among Housemasters and make the final decision on freshman assignment...
Quite Early One Morning, by Dylan Thomas. The late, brilliant Welsh poet has a lark with some uneven but delightful prose pieces (TIME...
...Model T lurched down the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue with a rattle and a clatter that Calvin Coolidge, 50 yards away in the White House, might easily have heard. Its hood was propped open to keep the motor cool, its rear end listed to one side under an uneven burden of piled-up duffle in the back seat, and its muffler was all too obviously missing. A sweating cop whistled the flivver to a stop, and out popped Wayne Morse. Characteristically, Mrs. Morse stayed in the car and said nothing...