Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those possessing a delicately tuned imagination will like "Berkeley Square" immensely while the common sheep will condemn the piece as decidedly fatuous. The charm of this cinema lies precisely in its dealings with the fantastic and it is this quality that makes it both extraordinary and different as movies go. In the story a young chap from the twentieth country, Leslie Howard by name, projects himself into the eighteenth century there to live over again the romance of ancestor Peter Standish and Helen Pettigrew. Complications are presented in prophetic remarks that so uncannily diagnose the future and which...
...Dove or Seagull have a determinedly casual stance which suggests a male forbear: U. S. Poet Robert Frost, to whom the authors acknowledge an obvious debt in their dedication. Like him, they refuse to sentimentalize their fondness for nature, insist on its hostility to humans as well as its charm. But while robust Poet Frost nevertheless finds permanent solace among his Vermont hills and pastures, in the minds of Poets Warner & Ackland the bryony and woodbine of which they are fond are entangled with feelings of transiency which wither much of their charm...
What pleased me the other night more than the amusing play was the histrionic ability of The Stagers who perform in the unpretentious Peabody Playhouse. Francis Cleveland, who is the emotional and egotistical actor, Oscar Jaffe, is convincing as a paranoiac; Harriet Helm has enough charm, poise and intelligence to make the least plausible character seem real. The rest of the cast was equally excellent...
...shrubs so that Fogg and the Union would group themselves with the rest of the buildings, Quincy Street would be reduced to the status of one of the roads running through the Yard, except that it would be open to traffic. Not only would this add greatly to the charm of the Yard by finishing off the quadrangle behind Sever, but it would make Quincy Street more convenient for traffic and would greatly reduce the danger of accidents to pedestrians by giving them an unobstructed view in either direction...
...modern science. From Pythagoras to Einstein he traces its development: from philosophy through magic and materialism to its present indeterminate flux. Modern scientists, says Sullivan, are really estheticians in disguise. Science's chief fascination to them is "because it provides the contemplative imagination with objects of great esthetic charm." To take Science as a religion is a mistaken act of faith from which agnostics have still to recover. Science has already given up the idea that its mathematics can ever be a cosmic Esperanto. Men-in-the-street, always up on news of the day but behindhand on news...