Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brick by brick, the tall twin smoke-stacks of the old heating plant that have for so long overshadowed. Smith Halls are gradually being demolished, although to a casual observer the stacks seem just as high as over...
...attempting to forsee the future development of the movies and their position as the greatest form of popular amusement that the world has ever had. He presents a great deal of excellent material on the movies as an illusion. Which cannot fail to be of great interest to the casual though critical observer. His comparison of the moving picture and music as analogous arts is probably the most original part of the volume, while his critical discussion of the history of cinema since the days when it was used for peep-shows leads up to a final comparison...
...Casual and everyday use of movies as a normal adjunct of education has not yet arrived, but it is well on the way. Yesterday in Fine Arts 5b, the History of Renaissance Scuipture, the art of the cinema and the technical skill of the University Film Foundation were called into service when a picture of the intricate technical processes of bronze and plaster casting were illustrated via moving pictures on a screen, far better than they could have been described by a lecturer...
...morning I received a brief note from an assistant in the University to the effect that the Harvard Debating Council Plan for the Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment is too simple. Possibly other members of the University are of the same opinion. I think that impression arises from too casual an examination of the plan. The effects of the Harvard Debating Council Plan are numerous and far-reaching. I am giving below some of the less obvious effects ofeach item...
Because it suggests how completely disagreeable the results of man's illicit motions toward pleasure are apt to be, this play is more persuasive than the outline would indicate. George Abbot presents an effortless, natural portrait of the casual Westchester man-of-letters. Edwin Phillips, as the son, is that great dramatic rarity ?an accomplished, likeable adolescent...