Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory that the most noteworthy trend of the cinema in 1935 was towards scenes of 'physical torture and brutality," and that the trend "may be related very distinctly to the national state of mind" was suggested last fortnight by Andre Sennwald, brilliant 28-year-old cinema critic of the New York Times, in an article called ''Gory, Gory Hallelujah." Same day the article appeared, the mangled corpse of Critic Sennwald was discovered in the living room of his penthouse. An explosion was caused by a spark in a gas-filled room in which he had apparently committed...
...conflict between course requirements and the tutorial system. A tutorial student would be hard beset if he did not avail himself of course lectures. Moreover, the honor student is not likely to disregard perhaps, the greatest opportunity the college offers--namely that of listening to the lectures of brilliant scholars...
...When brilliant Carl Willever, who had just been expelled from his High Church monastery because of homosexual practices, came to him for shelter, Ernest feared it might well cost him his job. After a run-in with his rector, he knew it would, unless he told Carl to go. After a short, sharp tussle he did the sensible thing, went on with his never-ending round of telephone calls, taxis, cigarets, his headlong, good-humored but uncompromising fight against sinful muddle...
...first step in the program was to provide undergraduate fellowships with maximu7m awards of $1,000 each annually to entering freshmen from the middle west. These fellows made such a brilliant record in the first year of the plan, both in studies and extracurricular activities, that the program was expanded to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...great actress who falls pretty low. Her woes are made known to the world by an inquisitive but charming newshound, and in this way they form a diverting fule. The histrionic ability of Kay Francis, playing the title role, is open to question, but the supporting east is brilliant...