Word: utterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pointing out that Mister Sam's Capitol renovation will be "pushed ahead irrespective of Senate protests, without House hearings and in utter disregard of public opinion and the judgment of some of the most prominent architects in America today," the long-suffering New York Times last week exclaimed: "Sam Rayburn doesn't own the Capitol...
...vinyl is Atonalist Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron (Columbia, 3 LPs), which is partly a music drama based on Exodus, partly a musical essay on the nature of God. The opera's fascinating conflict develops between Moses, whose heart knows the Word his tongue cannot utter, and his brother Aron, who speaks glibly but substitutes for Moses' harsh and humble vision of God the opiate of a comforting father figure. To Aron, God is joy, to Moses He is awe. Moses' anguished faith can admit only of a God who is "omnipresent, unperceived and inconceivable...
...like their piano well-flavored and with the angularities gone. The slower selections such as All of Me sometimes lose their way, but Pianist Wilson swings through the propulsive numbers-Sweet Georgia Brown, Smile, Limehouse Blues-with fine buoyancy and the amiable air of a man who could not utter a harsh note if he tried...
...Princeton definition of "wonk" at Bickertime? The traits of a varied species can be most clearly grasped when combined into an extreme, idealized archetype, whose full obnoxious character each empirical individual but partially manifests and only for a brief time. To apprehend the Platonic essence, then, of the utter antithesis to the approved club type, imagine an inarticulate, introverted, morbidly shy sophomore from a small town in the provinces. He wears outlandish ties, dirty sweaters, and baggy pants. Not only lacking a crewcut, he is in bad need of a barber nearly all the time and obviously shaves but rarely...
Scientists, it seems, are people who "work with science and drink coffee." They invent new "thoiries," or work on such things as the "salt vacine." They are "shabby dressed," often indulge in utter nonsense ("I don't see any reason for putting a satilight up"). Without them, one student conceded, "we would not have any of the modern conveniences that we have today." But the scientist, said another, "does not need to be a genius. Albert Einstein had a very low IQ." Snorted still another pupil: "I don't think he has to be so brilliant he doesn...