Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Raft is not too successful as the cab driver. He was like a puppet guided by an inexpert amateur. Especially in the scenes with the society siren did he show his lack of versatility in acting. A pleasant contrast to the poor interpretation of Mr. Raft was the almost flawless acting of Miss Sidney. She has remarkable reserve in depicting sentimentally emotional scenes which Helen Hayes, who has been so highly praised, lacks. Without a flood of tears, with the slightest modulation in voice, which paradoxically should be the reaction of the opposite emotion, she can show her consternation...
...short story from the ubiquitous pen of Earnest Hemingway entitled "Homage to Switzernot obtrusively so, and is refreshingly brutal. While actually containing nothing but a few sentences of conversation, loosely connected, the tale is singularly incisive and clear cut in the total effect. It comes in welcome contrast to the usual run of magazine effusions...
...calibre. Enthusiastic Harvard alumni will as a result probably demand that Harvard follow Yale's action with like steps. As a matter of fact, a glance at the Crimson schedule will show that it is heading in that direction, with six hard and two easy games in 1934, in contrast to five hard and three easy ones...
...Hall. Purchased in 1918 from a boarding house proprietress, it has become the home of the Naval Science Department, and the enforced repository for twenty-five dropped Freshmen. A veritable fire-trap, a prey to the first strong wind that blows, the wooden edifice of Shepherd is in shameful contrast to a group of buildings which includes Dunster, Lowell, and Eliot Houses. The University has recognized these facts for years, yet has pursued only a patch-work policy, just effective enough to hush condemnation proceedings...
...fascinated reader of Parkman's narrative of the fall of Louisburg in 1745 this collection of contemporary journals may offer sharp contrast to the romantic tale that is found in the "Half Century of Conflict." The book is a compilation of ten accounts of the siege by different eye-witnesses, six of whom remain unknown to the present day. Written in the plain matter of fact fashion of the unimaginative colonial they simply set forth the events that took place in the one American expedition of the War of the Austrian Succession. One must not expect to find more than...