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There is to be Inter-house Debating. While this will not rescue many golden minutes from dissipation in the Boylston Street beer gardens, it is to be put in the general category of steps-forward. There are several reasons for this. The first and most banal is that anything labeled inter-house is to be regarded favorably, if merely as a consolation to Mr. Harkness. Next there comes the consideration of the effect on the college. This should be beneficial if the debates do, as their advocates pretend, put the high bat on the bull session and conserve...
...could do smooth, floating arabesques. He leaped once into the air. did a picturesque wriggle and landed gracefully curled up on his side. But his dancing had little of the flowing, unbroken quality which made Nijinsky's seem like a logical supplement to the music. His choreography was banal, his company incompetent. Only in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune did he achieve the unusual. Then, in flesh-colored tights and a leafy wreath, he went through a series of postures which were a model of muscular grace...
...Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk, who shoots the reporter who, when he gets out of the hospital, marries Julie. Far from the tenor of the book by Max Miller, from which it was adapted by Wells Root, I Cover the Waterfront is a sullen atmospheric melodrama, interesting except in banal sequences which show the reporter abusing his managing editor...
From the nightmares of dyspeptic children, from the dreams of opiumeators. from medieval lore of the world comes the conception of monsters with which men cannot cope, from which they cannot escape. Science made banal and dreary these dreams, the cinema transforms them with its touchstone of cheapness, and no one can longer cower awed and terrified before apparitions. Kong, the magnificent ape-colossus, the monarch of a surviving world of dinosauri, stands alone...
...last few years have stated by portraying life in the open world and have ended tragically by moving the actors to a different set, that of a prison. "Pick Up" reverses the procedure. Yet as the curtain is to be drawn, it gets, into a predicament which is also banal; a melodramatic and implausible trial scene...