Word: unraveling
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Aside from Thanksgiving, the Commencement pageantry which will gradually unravel in the Yard this morning is America's oldest continuous festival; by its forthright uniqueness, it is also one of the most endearing signs of the everlasting Harvard...
...will take some doing. Webb & Knapp's recently released 1962 annual report is a textbook of corporate debt and declining assets; its long-term debt is an astonishing 83% of its assets. Webb & Knapp's finances are sometimes so complicated that its own auditors are unable to unravel them. Two months ago, outside auditors had to be called in to double-check some calculations. The result: instead of the previously reported $5,000,000 profit for 1962's second and third quarters, Webb & Knapp was forced to declare a $7,700,000 loss...
...with each new issue; "followers of the government, and even members of it, would on particular occasions speak and vote against it, and a government which normally could count on a very considerable majority would at times find itself in danger of defeat." Among those who have attempted to unravel the political tangles of the period, none matches the stature of Sir Lewis Namier. Crossroads of Power, the second volume of his miscellaneous essays on eighteenth century England, demonstrates both the labyrinthine nature of the age, and Namier's ability to cope with...
...plot tries unsucessfully to establish a garrison background for the personality clash that is the real story, and merely causes intense boredom. The convolutions of the additional characters are too much to unravel; suffice it to say that all the army types are just that--types--and the women are loyal and kind, if sparingly and stupidly used. Miss York's part, particularly, is wasted, for she disappears about halfway through the film, never to reappear...
...piece of acting, and he enriches the play by his very presence on stage. And yet that is also his problem. At his best, Pickett is as clever as the lines of his part--which is fine; at the same time, however, by a process I will try to unravel, he is much cleverer than the lines of the other parts of the play, which thus becomes less than interesting...