Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligent, reasonably faithful and less likely to arouse squeals of affected agony from literary hair-splitters than any other recent effort of its kind. Considered on its own merits as a picture, it is the liveliest in which Greta Garbo has appeared since Mata Hari and should on this account delight millions of cinemaddicts who have never of Tolstoy and could not spell out his stories if they had. Good shot: Vronsky's first glimpse of Anna, through steam blowing across her face from the engine of the train...
Last week he filed a crisp account of mating between humans and apes on a Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal...
...fictional college boys along. Wearily Author Flandrau capitulated, found the young Harvard men accompanying him to England and France, thought of them as traveling in his heart, his head and his steamer trunk, got rid of them at last with such relief that he did not reread his own account of their adventures until 34 years later...
DEATH IN THE DESERT-Paul I. Wellman-Macmillan ($3). An excellent account of the last Indian wars of the U. S. Southwest and Oregon, including detailed descriptions of Indian maneuvers which throw light on the generalship of savage chieftains pitted against overwhelming odds...
...Post, Author Flandrau continued to write, less frankly, a series of sketches dealing with college life in general, with two amiable, intelligent, irresponsible Harvard boys in particular. Last week Author Flandrau prefaced a slim collection of these sketches with a long, ingratiating introduction almost entirely given over to an account of the formidable difficulties that a candid young writer faced in a period when editors were cautious to the point of timidity...