Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...television, has been a seasonal fixture ever since. Last week another Christmas opera, Golden Child, was displayed on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame. Composed by Philip Bezanson with a libretto by Paul Engle, the new work sounded a lot like Menotti gone western-and gone weak. The music kept attempting to soar melodically, but kept being dashed to the ground again by its own heaviness. Still, the score had its stirring, lyrical moments, and Golden Child deserved credit at least for trying to be a serious addition to American opera, to TV and to the season...
Seymour Melman, who is also editor of the publication "Inspection for Disarmament," drew a sharp distinction between disarmament and arms control. Arms control, he said, is a military plan, and it is the "defeatists of American society" who support it those who are "too weak to engage in competition with the Soviet system...
Many of the students rated low felt that anonymity had been a cause of their weak efforts and low grades. Such men declared they had no faculty contact whatever, Whitla says, and they related this causally to their apathy and indifference. These average students in the survey. Whitla says, "could have made far more effort academically throughout their college years, and the lack of direction recognition, and personal challenge from the faculty seem in large part responsible for their marginal participation...
Recent Crimson Play Weak...
Coach Floyd Wilson was unwilling to place the blame for the team's poor play on any particular man. He explained the weak offensive performance against M.I.T. by pointing out that his squad was playing against a zone for the first time. And Boston College, the coach noted, "was the best offensive team we've played" and we would have lost "no matter what we had done...