Word: adaptions
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...Roach). With the notable exception of Walt Disney cartoons, fantasy is not a form of entertainment in which the cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material out the studio window...
...moment later has him rub his belly. This kneads the stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected stripe indicates potentially serious trouble. Dr. Hampton now is trying to adapt the same method to showing the haustra, or tucks, of the colon which often churn up disease...
...difficult to understand the attitude of the Princeton authorities, an attitude meriting no other name than intolerance. The custom of forced attendance at church is a gross anachronism. More significant, it is a serious impediment to the cause of religion, struggling mightily to adapt itself to a changing world. To attempt to stimulate religious belief by cramming it down a man's throat is folly. The normal individual not only resents such a practice, but will have a lifelong prejudice against the food of which he partakes so grudgingly...
...small-town life in the American Middle-West. Ruth Suckow does not look upon her people with the sophisticated, cynical, despising eyes of Sinclair Lewis, for she knows them well and has a true understanding of their problems and a profound sympathy for them in their struggle to adapt themselves to the basically altered conditions of modern life. The old security of farm, home, and church is gone and in its place there is a new and confusing set of standards and ideals. It may be a simple thing for the nomadic urbanites to fit in this new mold...
...waive academic restrictions in deserving cases. It would also be necessary to make arrangements with the European universities to continue the tutorial work along an integrated line, but this would not be difficult because many of these universities already have a regularly organized tutorial system which could easily adapt itself to such conditions. Other academic complications such as the securing of uniformity of organized study and grading of work are problems which have been solved at other American universities and which certainly present no insurmountable barriers when the will to solve them is strong...