Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Behind Office Doors" should have been a shorter picture by several hundred feet, for at times it drags intolerably. And one is very apt to leave the theatre with the unkind feeling that if one doesn't see Miss Astor until a year from next Michelmas one is likely to survive...
...Melody of Chaos" is a very apt title for this attempt to interpret the works of Conrad Aiken and certain of his associates in the psychoanalytical schools of writing. A good portion of the book is concerned with exposing the essential chaotic nature of the material with which these writers are working, and most of the rest is given over to an evaluation of Aiken's poetry in terms of this burrowing about at the hidden roots of action...
Church & Land. Spain is a Roman Catholic country. Critics of the Inquisition are apt to forget that it was supremely successful in its primary object: the wiping out of heresy, Protestantism. There are a few Protestant churches in Spain and liberty of worship is permitted all sects. But 99% of the people owe spiritual allegiance to Rome. Royal Spain was the only country that still paid state tribute to the Roman Catholic Church: between 5000,000 and 60,000,000 gold pesetas a year (about $12,000,000). The Church owns property of incalculable value, priests exert tremendous influence...
...instructor at the conclusion of a stimulating lecture. Applause, it should be noted well, comes not at the end of each class, but only those in which the student audience conceives the lecture to have been unusually entertaining. Though doubtlessly done with the best of intentions, this habit is apt to assume alarming regularity with subsequent disastrous consequences...
...invite comparison with the Metropolitan Opera's recent production (TIME, Feb. 16), the Brothers Shubert have revived John N. Raphael's and Constance Collier's dramatization of George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson. As a libretto for Deems Taylor's music. Peter Ibbetson seemed peculiarly apt, and Joseph Urban did some notable settings for it. The Shuberts' play is not so well mounted. The fanciful story of two lovers who, parted as children, meet only in their dreams in later life and are only wholly reunited in death, is one which ; goes better with music nowadays than...