Word: unwarrantedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handel has provided a veritable dictionary of musical rhetoric in which expressiveness is attained via articulation and in which major and minor scales and dominant harmony still evoke all the necessary emotional resonances in the listener. Mr. Greenebaum seems not to have scrutinized a single one of the phrasing patterns...
Balancing these two prose sketches is The Purification, a verse play which offers the only real chance for experimental work. Williams, in combining wild imagery, a guitar player, and a chorus, has attempted to give unwarranted significance to absurd instance of human frailty. Set in the western deserts, the play...
By now, obviously, the FHA scandals have become part of nightclub repertories, Red Smith's column and American folk lore generally. (The tabloids had fun with the story of Ian Woodner, a Washington builder who charged to FHA projects $87,000 for detectives-partly to check up on his...
When Paul Buck retired as Provost last year, his departure was regretted in releases, editorials, and tributes--all with one common failing. They proceeded from the assumption that Buck was lost forever to future Harvard administrations. In the unerring logic of retrospect, this pessimism was unwarranted: the new President and...
Considering the unfair procedures the board used against these men, any punishment upon its recommendation would seem unwarranted for Professors Hughes and Weisner. No group which presupposes that a man is not trustworthy is competent to judge him.