Word: placement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laconic, seemingly impersonal surfaces of Pritchett's stories give off a surprising amount of animal heat. It is a matter of design, craftsmanship and, as the author has written, "the supreme pleasure of putting oneself in by leaving oneself out." The technique requires the placement of the precise detail at the exact emotional distance, and it gave his autobiography the immediacy of his fiction. Here, for example, is that extraordinary passage from Midnight Oil in which Pritchett describes one of the more dramatic consequences of his father's exasperating personality: "He had no notion of what...
Among the women, Caroline Rody's sweet secure voice renders the multi-lingual "Marieke" gracefully, if a bit timidly. Susan Pollock's voice sounds very well-trained--in fact, too well-trained. Her careful attention to breathing and assiduously precise placement of each note is distracting. The demure soprano of Carla Seidel finds the right, slightly cloying tone for "Carousel," though by the end she becomes both inaudible and unintelligible as she tries to keep up with the song. But then, that's the point...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday approved a plan to toughen sophomore standing requirements by increasing the minimum score students must attain on three Advanced Placement (A.P.) exams from...
Stephen M. Bernardi, assistant dean for academic administration at the Law School, said yesterday the Navy's general counsel had assured him the office's hiring policies conform to the school's placement office rules...
Steven Sayers, a law student and member of the committee, said yesterday the committee has gathered 550 signatures on a petition protesting the placement office's decision to allow the Navy interviewers on campus...