Word: seriously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who sympathized with Van Doren seemed to completely overlook this perjury angle. Yet I wonder how these people would feel if they were on trial for a serious crime and, though innocent, found themselves convicted by the perjury of a witness. Would they shrug off that perjury as they shrugged off Van Doren's? I doubt...
Spiegel's findings, praised by West German Historian Theodor Eschenburg as "serious and scientific," point out that the case against Hitler, Göring & Co. rests on hearsay as suspect as the Nazi accusation against the Communists. Spiegel had used, among other evidence, the institute's files in Munich. Historian Anton Hoch, the institute's archivist, accepting the scientific basis of Spiegel's findings, commented: "We must report atrocities such as Auschwitz and Belsen concentration camps, but for the sake of truth we must also show that Nazis were not to blame for the Reichstag fire...
Christmas Carols (The Randolph Singers, conducted by David Randolph; Westminster Stereo). The serious collector of carols could scarcely do better than this album. The Randolph group sings with sensitivity and precision, and the selections are ones that the listener is not likely to stumble across in a month of Christmases: Patapan; Saint Staffan; Quid Petis, O Fili; Bring a Torch, Jeanette...
...shining on her tawny face while she sang a moving set of folk songs with powerfully restrained drama. Later she was on her feet again belting out a Heat Wave with the raucous abandon of a Merman. In the course of the long show, Diahann Carroll displayed only one serious weakness: an occasional tendency to oversell her role, as in her version of Just Lookin' Around, which was so coated with coy baby talk that the message never filtered through...
More money "will inevitably lead to a very serious erosion of university control of university activities," the American Civil Liberties Union objected this week. Yet in a survey of scientific grants at Harvard, these fears of possible government domination seem unfounded...