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Brown said a "duplicate has been pinch-hitting satisfactorily," and continued, "but please convey to the Harvard CRIMSON O.G.P.U., alias Cambridge W.C.T.U., our desire to have original returned for framing. Undecided whether to report case to La Follette Civil Liberties Committee or Dies Committee for Un-American Activities, but suspect that suspicious color of your sheet will imperil you most with latter group...
...scenes simple, the action consistently underplayed. The touches which strike the American audience are the little ones--the close-up of Von Stroheim's gloved fist as his French friend, and prisoner, dies; the scene in which the escaped Marechal talks French to a mute German cow. These flashes convey feeling in a way that Hollywood seldom uses, but it would be unfair to say that the best Hollywood technique is any less effective...
Author Goldwater shows that Paul Gauguin, who pursued the primitive to Tahiti, was not the first artist to make a touchdown: "artists' voyages after his time lessened rather than increased in extent." Furthermore. Romantic Primitivism. the conscious desire to convey the fundamentals of life, arose among various 19th-Century artists before much, if anything, was known of aboriginal art. The Fauves ("Wild Beasts") in France around 1905 found African sculpture an exciting curiosity, but shared Vlaminck's amusement at the pompous way their followers took...
...convey requests to the Police Commissioner for changes of assignment of policemen...
...Kennedy had an idea that "unconscious whispering" might help explain the high percentage of correct guesses recorded by Rhine. A person trying to convey telepathically one of the five symbols on the ESP cards to another person's mind might imagine that he was shouting the symbol at the top of his lungs, and so might unconsciously move his lips or alter his breathing. These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened. Dr. Kennedy used blindfolded subjects who were not told the purpose...