Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior could profit by an expansion of interest in his Senior year it never before. College for the first time begins to mean something to him in broad perspective. Perspective of any sort is a real accomplishment. Usually your young man has to wait until he gets out of college to begin to see the thing clear and to see it whole. Probably this is the aim of our educators, although it is sadly unwise. And so what boots it anyhow to have anticipated this intellectual robustness in his Senior year? He must suffer the division of tastes and tasks...
...stickler would cry out at the exaggeration; but possibly it was the players who underscored too heavily, and possibly the stickler who exaggerated, so finely did the action cut to the truth. In the second act, and indeed throughout the play, the purist would cavil at the lapses into broad relief; too often cleverness passed for wit, and gross business for eyebrow innuendo. For the over-dramatic, Mr. Rathbone, in the tutor's role, was the only possible offender. It was naturally as difficult for him to disclose his smouldering fires to the audience...
...said that both he and the Corporation realized Professor Baker's personal value as an instructor but that "a theatre and a permanent school for playwrights would not be wise". The limitation of the funds of the University made it impossible to develop departments whose appeal is less broad, he declared...
...Salvation Hunters. What was reported to be a seven-league stride in pictures turned out to be only a good broad jump. Josef Von Sternberg has done things that were never done before. He has created a picture all nickeled and new. His supply of novelty ran out. He based his technique on simplicity and symbolism. His story dealt with a cowardly youth who came to town with a girl and child to find their fortunes. As the girl is about to be seduced, he finally finds his courage and, with it, presumably, his future...
...favor of the change, none in opposition. Mr. R. C. Grovestein, appearing in behalf of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association favored changing the size of the rotund, but he wanted a structure different from Mr. Blanchard's in that it called for eliminating one of the two broad stairways...