Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BLOW-DOWN-Lawrence G. Blochman -Harcourt, Brace ($2). Death, destruction and international intrigue on a Caribbean banana plantation. First-rate plot, pace and background. (Appearing serially in Collier's as The Resounding Skies...
...United Artists-Alexander Korda). For reasons which are growing increasingly mysterious, French cinema producers seem to have become obsessed with the problem of female institutions. Model for all such pictures was, of course, the German Maedchen in Uniform, but in this the theme, more or less intrinsic to the background, was Lesbianism. French producers have not been obliged to resort to any such spectacular embellishments. Pictures like Club de Femmes, La Maternelle, Forty Little Mothers, Ballerina, make it apparent that French producers are interested in seminaries, kindergartens and sewing circles solely on their own merits, that they take a certain...
This melodramatic, smoldering story is the background of Robert Penn Warren's Night Rider. Nobody agrees about the real Tobacco War. But there is no ambiguity in Warren's vivid account of it. Vigorous, lyrical, balanced, it portrays the actors of that little-known ruckus...
...book of criticism, it will serve many lay readers as an excellent introduction to these masterpieces. Delving into a primary source in Christian theology is no easy matter for the lay reader. Language, terminology, unfamiliar dogma, all conspire to hide the author's purpose. Yet with the scholarly background which Dean Sperry has provided for each of these works, the reader will be able to catch the main philosophical points and appreciate for himself the greatness of Dean Sperry's subject...
Jackson and Hofer plan to cover the study of the technical and artistic aspects of bookmaking and to provide a background for collecting and printing...