Word: unevennesses
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...thinks about the problem and the numbers come - in three or four seconds. Often she gives the answer as soon as her questioner has written down the last digit. In the case of the root problems, the answer must be a whole number. Her mysterious talent does not yield uneven answers. She has studied logarithms, but they confused her and she does not use them...
...rakehell son is an old favorite of French fiction, and so is the mean-spirited bourgeois father who fails to understand him. From this familiar combination, a truculent French novelist named Hervé Bazin has written a fresh if uneven novel...
They had picked up votes from the disillusioned and impatient who abound in Italy's uneven economy. To these unhappy Italians they sold nostalgia, a promise to resurrect the old days when Italy strutted before the world as a first-class power, when decisions were made for, not by, the people, and when the Duce took care of everyone. Most important of all, the M.S.I, won backing from among the same group that financed Mussolini's rise-rich landowners and industrialists who fear even De Gasperi's mild reform program and want insurance against change...
...with a condition rather than a specific situation, and can only grind away at what is quickly apparent and largely unalterable. Themselves beset by their material, the authors get as overwrought as their characters; they lose perspective about something that, treated more casually, might seem more heartbreaking. But however uneven, Sunday Breakfast is at least not slick...
...give Judy Holliday another opportunity to display her talent as a comedienne, and 2) to present a fairly thorough view of the ups and downs of seven years of married life for a struggling young couple in the city. The results of their endeavors is a rather uneven picture one that never quite bridges the gap between its amusing and serious situations. It relies heavily on the abilities of its leading players to make the best of routine episodes and gags of the bathroom bedroom and kitchen variety...