Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lend the genius a helping hand-and offers, for the sake of simplicity, to go fifty-fifty for life-it looks an act of unparalleled generosity. It never occurs to the genius that he is entitled to more than 50% of himself. Don't shout at him or utter threats or tell him who's boss; you want your genius happy. The genius has the imagination to make himself your slave. His fears are far greater than anything you can instill into...
...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...
Just as the rationalizations are running out, the linguophiles come up with leadership and tradition. Harvard, you see, is a leader, and if it stopped requiring language skills of every student, all the schools of the country would decide that such studies were an utter waste of time and abolish them. Tradition reminds us that civilized men speak foreign languages--they have also, at varied times, worshipped kings, written bad poetry, and listened to folk songs...
...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...