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...picture is a message of peace. I have painstakingly avoided every indication of political propaganda. All I wanted to convey to the people was the historical law that civilizations have to balance the destructive forces by an equal effort on the constructive and creative side...
...Hollywood's leading stars, Katharine Hepburn is possibly the least versatile. It is precisely this limitation which made her the ideal choice for the role of Alice. The woebegone grimaces, the expressions, half childish and half addle-headed, which she uses to convey youth's nameless longings and which are often so startlingly misplaced in her portrayals of women of the world, are those which make her portrayal of a girl whom she really understands her masterpiece to date. The supremely difficult feat of characterizing a poseuse so as to mock the poses without mocking the person behind...
...when have Coast Guard warrant boatswains been exemplified with the title of captain? My only objection. Suggest you read up on naval terms. Would it be possible for the painter to explain the reason for the honor so nobly bestowed upon the Coast Guard? Or does she try to convey to the looking public that members of the Coast Guard all look as if they have been stuffed with "brown bread, baked beans, coffee...
...disastrous. A man whose main interest is scholarship rarely combines within himself the necessary qualities of a good teacher. We must remember that teaching is a profession of its own. To be a good teacher requires not only enough knowledge about one's subject to be able to convey it to other individuals, but a complete understanding of his students. This latter knowledge can only be acquired after much experience, and a close study of and contact with these students. It is an all-absorbing task, if done correctly, and tends in itself to exclude preoccupation with other fields...
...this point in Les Miserables Victor Hugo wrote a five-chapter treatise on the horrors of his next background, the Paris sewers. In his presentation of Valjean's final flight, Director Richard Boleslawski contrives to convey a comparable sense of horror...