Word: complexities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Citizen Coolidge: I have been in the movies for some time but never professionally. I suppose everyone who comes here has a motion picture complex. I haven...
...impossible for the talkie to use the nuances and half-tones necessary to the effective presentation of a complex idea. The real trouble with the talkie is that to be successful it must appeal to the lowest level of intelligence. The dramatist can choose whatever level he pleases...
Female Sex Hormone. The female procreative apparatus secretes a complex chemical called for want of a special name the female sex hormone. The hormone is carried by the blood throughout the body. It is essential to a woman's health. It gives women their feminine characteristics. Its lack or scant production causes physiological irregularity, often sterility. Women create more of it while they are pregnant than at other times. It becomes available in relatively large quantities in the amniotic fluid and placenta...
...devoid of spontaneity and realism, it uses little scenery other than chairs and tables which may represent almost any architectural feature. The actor expresses himself in turn by speech singing, gymnastics and dancing. Fearsome, comic masks and face-painting, costumes, and a whole intricate play of gesture have complex, traditional significances (stooping, for instance, means passing under a lintel, i. e., entering another house). The singing is accompanied by one musician producing whining, squealing sounds on the Hu-ch'in (bamboo bow-and-string instrument), by others tapping wood blocks, striking cymbals, plunking rudimentary banjos. Their approaches to harmony...
...make the American student a rather peculiar individual as far as college students go through the ages and over the countries of the world. Where before most of the regulatory work had to do with study, now in America the colleges are forced to take up the infinitely more complex problem of regulation of its members is a question that cannot be solved merely from the perusal of this college controversy. It is the same question as to whether the federal or state government has the power to make us stop buying liquor. The only general observation that...