Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divided into integral parts without any appreciable loss of interest. It is the producer's job to bring his story to a climax and at the same time allow the transient audience to catch on all the way along the line. D. W. Griffith is quite sound in his belief that this hap-hazzard method of presentation hampers the artistic advance of motion pictures immeasurably...
...thoughtful men, of whatever belief, agree with the saying of Charles A. Dana, that religion is the most momentous question that can occupy human thought...
...Taylor uses the terms of the composing room and the editorial room glibly enough, but his criticism forces one to the belief that he must have consulted a glossary before taking his pen in hand. One can sympathize with the plaintive cries of the laity for fewer mistakes, but when the critique is couched in terms of the craft, it conveys an impression of authoritative knowledge, an impression which, in the case at hand, is evidently quite unjustified. Anyone familiar with the business of reporting, writing, editing and printing news knows that TIME ranks high according to every journalistic standard...
...month in a frog-green cover for 50¢. Its writers push their noses against a cold mirror and squint at the mystical films their misting breaths design. They like to "show up" insipidities. They do so skillfully. But often what they tootle as an insipidity is verily the heart-belief of many honest folk...
...valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered the plateau for thousands of years with periodic intermissions when enterprising Egyptologists have laid bare the feet of the Sphinx, the Valley Temple of Khephren and the other monuments east of the pyramids. For many years there has persisted a belief that into the very bed rock of the plateau tombs were cut by the ancient rulers of the Nile who foresaw that the very awe which the massive dimensions of the pyramids inspired, would prove the undoing of their hopes of eternal rest. Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the course...