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...physician, who based his opinion only on pulse rate and blood pressure measurements. When the anthropologist and the psychiatrist got together, they found that a lack of harmony in body measurements in a man may be related to personality weakness. Breadth of shoulder in relation to calf circumference, and skull circumference in relation to chest circumference are among the anthropological features which may point to particular personality traits. Environmental influences which may have acted upon young men are also being considered One of the questions which the Study is now trying to solve is: why do public school boys...
Criticism. Probably the year's most important book of criticism was F. O. Matthiessen's exhaustive study of The American Renaissance ($5). More stimulating, when it was not making calf's-eyes at bathos, was Edward Dahlberg's violent Do These Bones Live ($3). Van Wyck Brooks (The Opinions of Oliver Allston; $3) was the year's prime example of one who, in the frenzy of his search for saving values, leaped before he looked, with both hands clamped to his eyes. His yoking of "optimistic" Thomas Mann and Whittier as "primary" artists...
Turn right back on the same old track And swing that gal behind you! Rope your cow and brand your calf, Swing your honey an hour and a half...
Through three pictures, the lantern-jawed comic has made calf eyes at dusky Dorothy Lamour. Their effect on the sarongstress has led her to remark: "In Typhoon I had a chimpanzee. In Zanzibar I have Hope." This time he gets her-fully clad, for a change...
...tells how the calf loves of a group of youngsters are upset by the accidental visit of a magnetic aviator. His presence brings one maiden (Diana Barrymore) close to mature desire, sends another fanciful virgin (Joan Tetzel) out on an attempt at suicide, stirs up puppyish rages in the young brothers of the two. Undoubtedly the delicately written play is not at fault if it and adolescent trials nowadays seem somewhat irrelevant...