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...wheels grind erratically. One it turns out smooth, polished, sterling and lustrous. Another rough, crude, callow, and crass. It requires knowledge as for a skilled trade, the application needed for a profession, the devotion for a cause. It demands all of your intellectual, physical, and emotional reserves, but its victories are sweet. Sweetly, Roger Allan Moore National College Director Young Republican National Federation...
...almost an unknown, that America launched him, glorified him and was responsible for his success. The picture denationalizes my grandfather." Besides, added the family's lawyer-although his point was not included in the legal complaint-the heirs regard Lanza as "just a beginner, with a crude, uneducated voice, unworthy of Caruso...
Secondly, on grounds of artistry and originality I'll have to plead de gustibus--I thought "Birth of a Nation" was a lousy movie; crude, childish, violent, and farcical in its most "dramatic" moments. Sure it has Griffith's panning technique and a couple of great battlefield scenes, but why not cut these out and show them as slides? Or go see "The Red Badge of Courage," which is about fifty times as good. Filling in the lacunae of a few cinema snobs does not justify the risk of vilifying a race, or pandering to prejudices that are already...
...Ellis Arnall last week made a decision. Since the ceilings no longer meant anything, Arnall thought it might be just as well to take some of them off. He prepared, accordingly, orders "temporarily" suspending the ceilings on numerous items (hides, calfskins, tallow, lard, animal waste material, vegetable soap stock, crude cottonseed, soybean and corn oil, burlap, wool, alpaca...
...some sheets of blank foolscap and by gestures urged him to draw. Janos threw his pencil to the floor and ran away. Time after time the camp officers coaxed him back with lumps of sugar. Gradually, as thin fingers traced deliberate line after line on the yellow paper, a crude autobiography in hieroglyphics began to take shape...