Word: versa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divide pictures too harshly. "People are accustomed to seeing the top of a picture have a blue sky which they accept as inevitable. For my part, I repeat the forms and patterns found on the earth in the area generally given over to the sky, or vice versa, to achieve a feeling of oneness...
...Liszt was the father of keyboard theatrics. Before his time, pianists usually played facing the orchestra with their backs to the audience or vice versa. Liszt turned the piano sideways to reveal his profile. One of his acts: in his debut in St. Petersburg, one chronicler reports, Liszt, "covered with clanking orders . . . mounted the platform, and, pulling his dogskin gloves from his shapely white hands, tossed them carelessly on the floor...
According to Sargent Kennedy, Registrar, about a dozen students a term misread their exam schedules and show up in the right place at the wrong time, or vice versa. Most common misreading of the printed schedules seems to be the result of a sort of Freudian censorship, whereby the student replaces "9:15" by "2:15" in his sub-conscious, and never knows the difference...
...great many wide-eyed, breathless stories about New York. Arab listeners were recently offered (Allah only knows why) a broadcast on Central Park which furnished the following startling information: "If you drive in through one of the streets that cross the park from west to east, or vice versa, you will probably go down a number of circular roads, and as the roads wind, your car will follow, and in half an hour or so you are back at the same point from which you started...
...nothing we as historians can do about Dr. Velikovsky's work other than smile and go about our business"-are a direct retrogression to the days when Copernicus was challenged by fellow scientists when he advocated the fact that the earth revolves around the sun, rather than vice versa...