Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...essays except the last display a verse style that is as sparkling as it is smooth, and as stimulating as it is comprehensive. After thirty years of criticizing the colossus of mechanized society, Mr. Huxley can still expand his thesis delightfully...
...since by the U.S., General Electric Co. last week gave a guarded glimpse of its rocket motor laboratory at Malta, near Schenectady. The massive test-stands are hidden in a 3,000-acre pine forest well marked with "restricted" signs. Closely shepherded newsmen and photographers did not learn much, except that G.E. has been busy on rockets since 1945, when it first undertook to assemble captured...
...Except to actors in search of a role, most plays in book form are dull reading. Without props or actors to create illusion and vitality, they make an intolerable demand on the average reader's imagination. A Shakespeare becomes an exception through an excess of sheer creative power, a Shaw through saucy verbal glitter, but so far there has been just one Shakespeare and one Shaw. With The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot moved very close to the select circle of playwrights who can be read with pleasure. With The Lady's Not for Burning, Britain...
...cruel relatives until in the last pages her pumpkin changes to a coach and the prince proposes. The Authors Walz play it for plot, and their plot ripples its muscles admirably. Yet to be convinced that the Randolphs really lived, readers will need more than a note that "except for one supernumerary, no character in this book is imaginary." All blacks and whites, Sisters moves along like a lively shadow play in which no grey shadings ever intrude to slow up the action with a third dimension...
...main complaint against the whole program is the poor publicity it has received at all stages. First, it was consistently advertised as a messenger service, causing a lot of misunderstanding. Second, there was no notification sent to many people who had been fined, except that the worst offenders were called in for conferences at the library. This meant that offenders who might have become more punctual if they knew they were being fined, were in the dark until term bills came...