Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government, the job of administering the daily routine of the college often tends to bog down in bureaucratic entanglements. The power, and sometimes the willingness, is lacking, to cut these knots. There is a strong tendency for a minor dean to indulge in the game of passing the buck, and, instead of dealing evenly and directly with all his students, to shift the onus of making difficult decisions over to other people, perhaps to that mysterious body known as the Administrative Board. In view of the fact that much of a dean's effectiveness depends on the position of respect...
Broadcasts scheduled for next month are: "The Labor Movement in the United States, 1865-1900", Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History, April 6; "The Noblest Monument of English Prose", John L. Lowes, Higginson Professor of English Literature, April 13; "The Great Masters of Baroque and Rococo Music", Dr. Hugo Leichtentirtt '94, April 14; "Astronomical Tests of the Theory of Relativity", Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, April 20; "The Romantic and Impressionistic Aspects of Landscape Painting in Music", Dr. Leichtentirtt, April 21; "Government Regulation of Industry", Edward S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, April...
...Good Earth (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth appeared in 1931, it was at once acclaimed as the superlative word-picture of China. When Hollywood started to produce The Good Earth in 1933, it set out to make its picture equally superlative. Twenty writers, including Tess Slesinger, Marc Connelly, Talbot Jennings and Claudine West tried their band at adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin...
Then, for a smashing finale, the script forsakes Pearl Buck for the first time to invent a spectacular locust plague. In what is the cinema's first investigation of what may prove a fertile field for drama-the War against the Insect-Wang and his men. ankle deep in bugs, battle with fire, clubs and feet the swarm which drones down the valley, blackening the sky. Some of these incredible scenes were shot in China; others, showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally...
...result-a 25? Book Digest, of which 75,000 copies were distributed to the stands of American News Co. First issue of Book Digest had condensations of ten recent books, fast-sellers like John Gunther's Inside Europe, Herbert Asbury's The French Quarter, Pearl Buck's Fighting Angel...