Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burst out it made fine theatre, illuminating the soggy mob (700 peasants) clamoring for Pontius Pilate to order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night and on trains back to Berlin ran on the dignity and beauty of the new Christus (Alois Lang), the bewildered aspect of the old Judas (Guido Mayr), the rosy simplicity of the Virgin (Anni Rutz). Reported Alexander Woollcott to the New York Times: "The play triumphed even over the village of Oberammergau . . . uproar, bedlam, mean scramble . . . seats reserved and paid for at a distance may not always be had at the last...
...painter, whom he urged to a prolific aping of the manner of Grandfather Millet. To Artist Cazeau's canvases Grandson Millet then affixed his grandfather's initials. In Paris he discovered one Rudolfo Perez y Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...
With a thoroughness that takes him into every important aspect of college education and environment, and even beyond into the needs of the society of the future, Dr. Little fearlessly debunks the outstanding fallacies of modern flights toward the Olympus of the intelligent. His work is both idealistic, and practically progressive. There is scarcely a, flaw in the details of the modern system which he leaves unprobed. His suggestions for improvement, though sometimes open to serious debate and theoretical scepticism, cry out for a fair trial and an unblased judgement...
Besides the performance of Miss Shearer the other gratifying aspect of the movie is the fact that Robert Montgomery has finally arrived to the point where he has really clever lines to say and not the trite mush that he has had to mutter in the last several movies that he has appeared in. It is true that he gets off one, "Loosen up, little girl" or "Relax. baby, relax" but that can be excused on the grounds that he has been so accustomed to saying those things in the past that he had to utter just...
...problems. Four months ago James Franklin Hamilton, a railroad man, was called in to head all Avco's transport operations which constitute one-third of the industry's total in miles flown (TIME, Dec. 30). Now Mr. Coburn is called in to tune up the manufacturing aspect of the business, to align the personnel throughout. That is the work he specializes in - "Management Engineering." He belongs to the firm of Sanderson & Porter, whose clients include Federal Light & Traction Co., Na tional Distillers Products Corp., American Sumatra Tobacco Corp., American Water Works & Electric Co. Mr. Coburn's special...