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Missionaries who set out to evangelize the primitive world during the last cen-tury and encountered such customs and beliefs as this were inclined to think that they had fallen not only among heathens but also lunatics, and wrote lengthy, sorrowing reports of what they saw and heard. Students of cultural anthropology, however, began to realize that these backward people were not irresponsible children but that their entire mental orientation was as different from civilized man's as though they inhabited another planet. With trained scientists in the field correcting and supplementing the first reports, it became further apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Powers Unseen | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...been jingled by Poetaster Arthur Guiterman and Guild Director Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and assistants give a parody turn and little inspiration to some 17th Cen-tury dances. Pictorially it is nearly perfect. But even dour-faced Osgood Perkins as the tyrannical Brother Sganarelle and childish-voiced June Walker as his ward who is advised to "serve his meals all dank and sultry, and in between commit adultery" cannot make much of Moliere's empty comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhatten: Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

Unsatisfied with the showing of the lineup used last week in the clash with Fitchburg State, Coach Jack Carr has shifted Leon H. Manheimer '36 from cen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SOCCER TEAM WILL FACE ENGINEERS | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

...Cath. Cen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler Tamed | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...town of Skien. As a boy Henrik Ibsen was apprenticed to an apothecary and helped to grind powders, make pills and mix possets. Because he did not stick to that trade, but became a great poet and a greater dramatist, all Norway united, last week, to honor his birth-cen tenary with impressive ceremonies and revivals of his greatest plays at Oslo, Norwegian capital, and in Bergen, the sea port where he lived and labored for the theatre in his early years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: 1828 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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