Word: rather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vague presentiment. For twelve months of the year his body had hummed along minding its own business; then it was suddenly summoned to account for itself when Vag decided he wanted to play House volleyball. Facing the prospect of chest x-rays, urinalysis, and assorted jiggery-pokery, Vag felt rather like a nominal believer about to be asked spot quotations from the Bible on the Day of Judgement--there was nothing he could do in preparation, but he dreaded anything going wrong...
According to Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell House, the members of the Committee, which is comprised mostly of Masters, felt that the College should improve the service, rather than remove it. Students left to clean for themselves would hardly clean at all, said Perkins...
Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History--"Augustine would never say to Pelagius... as Socrates would say to Thrasymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the university must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian one.... It is not the business of the historian to inculcate belief...
Kathryn Humphreys as Helen also offers a few surprises. Her beauty is gamin rather than statuesque, and she plays Helen as if she had just stepped out of "Born Yesterday." Unfortunately, however, the lines do not always fit the Judy Holiday-dumb blonde stereotype. As a result the meaning of the lines is occasionally lost together with some of the story's coherence...
...Walter Benson's lighting effects show the self-consciousness inherent in college drama, they always manage to accent the general action. In a period play with a large cast costumes are necessarily a problem. In Tiger at the Gates, the costumes though well-styled always appear merely costumes, rather than attire...