Word: utterness
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...utter nonsense to tell any thinking person we cannot expand for lack of a few beds," Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House said yesterday. The former Dean of the College added he did "not wish to be associated with any statement that overcrowding justifies a smaller college...
...Utter Strangeness. The twelve-tone idiom is music's only salvation, according to Prophet Hodeir, but of all twelve-toners, perhaps only Jean Barraqué measures up to Critic Hodeir's ideal: "A world of utter strangeness." In Hodeir's view, Barraqué's Séquence for soprano and chamber orchestra is one of the "rare works in the history of music," and "the greatest piece of music written in Europe since Debussy's last period." Barraqué's unfinished La Mart de Virgile, to which he expects to devote the rest...
...play bogs down when the focus shifts from this utter frivolity to a pretention of seriousness. There is twisted passion, a love triangle, a murder, an earthquake, havoc, destruction, despair, and, finally, incomprehensibility and boredom which Mr. Aaron's broad comic direction could do nothing to alleviate. There are no points made, no point of view maintained, and I have a suspicion that there were none intended. Mr. Houghton tries to be Pirandello, but perhaps because he is attempting to be fashionable, he cannot fuse the poetry of the language and the dramatic technique into a real and original point...
...difference between an ANAPEST and an Anabaptist (the former being a verse meter, as in "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease," and the latter being one who questions the efficacy of infant baptism). Those who say to this, "I couldn't care less," utter not only an AMPHIBRACH but a CLICHÉ, although they might be astonished to hear it, much as Molière's bourgeois gentil-homme was astounded to discover that all his life he had been speaking PROSE...
...unexpected can upset an actuary's figures. He remembers a ham-handed clod named Dudley who flew copilot for a while on trans-Pacific runs. Dudley was a dud on instruments, but only after a couple of near crashes did anyone check his logbooks and find them an utter fiction. When he was fired, Dudley promptly got a job with another line and piled up in flames...