Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the question of production "courage," Black Fury succeeds superbly in its real aim, which is to be exciting. Its producers say what there is to be said on both sides, particularly the miners' side, with clarity, completeness and adult human understanding. Its subject may make Black Fury one of the most talked of pictures of the year. Michael Curtiz' direction and Paul Muni's superb performance make it one of the most worth-while dramatically. Good shot: Joe Radek getting gaily...
...Holdenville, Okla. in 1911. His father was an impoverished junkman and cotton picker. His mother died when he was 4. Jerome Dean began pitching to his brother, two years his junior, with a ball made out of yarn wrapped around a stone. He threw stones at squirrels until his aim was deadly. By the time he was 12, he was invited to pitch for the baseball team of a nearby high school which, because he had left grammar school after the fourth grade, he was too ignorant to attend. At 16, he enlisted in the Army, got his first pair...
...addition, the aim of the Conference was fulfilled. It fortunately was a possible one; that of portraying for the undergraduate what possibilities government service offered him. Whether that picture is permanently engraved on the audience's mind and will direct the course of the future lives is inconsequential for a prescribed task has been welldone. That in itself is a fitting tribute to Mr. Dennett, his undergraduate aides, and Harvard College...
...severely hampered by lack of funds. The regrouping of several smaller scholarships now offered will not be enough. A group of a dozen Middle Western and Western students at Harvard under the Conant plan is no more than an encouraging beginning to a program which has as its ultimate aim the inclusion of deserving young men from all forty-eight states of the Union. It is to be hoped that financial means will be found to permit the further development of a plan not only of proved success, but one of-great expectations...
This policy of combining smaller grants into a larger one is finding great favor in University Hall. The aim is to bring to Harvard men who are unable otherwise to obtain a college education. The grants run as high...