Word: dabblers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prudden's argument that men in Group Four with three important outside activities will be "dabblers" seems ridiculous. Show us a man who earns his numerals by dabbling. Show us a dabbler on the Crimson or Red Book boards. Show us a Group Four dabbler in three important activities...
...position since their cry has been to admit the all-around man rather than the so-called "grind." The proposal to assure admission to all Group IV men who have engaged in three or more major activities is rather shallow because it leaves the road open for the dabbler--a man who puts his fingers into everything, but does nothing well...
...idealistic, but today's keynote is realism. This changed viewpoint is the reason why many alumni taught under the older system wail loudly at the glaring lack of interest in culture at present. The spell-binders of yore are disappearing in the teaching ranks as surely as the undergraduate "dabbler" of the nineties. Harvard education is in the throes of a catharsis, and the University must expect to defend itself from the attacks of those who have been through a less concentrated fire...
...French cinema. As France's No. 1 character actor, however, his methods are his own. Above a body like a meal sack ap pears a face as soft as putty. On the face wriggle a corrugated nose, two eyebrows which appear to have disassociated sets of muscles. No dabbler in dilettantish restraint, Actor Baur roars like a lion, whispers like a snake, employs every known trick of the method which more inhibited actors contemptuously describe as "mugging." This is a technique which he acquired before the War when, as one of the villains in the Paris Grand Guignol...
...section, you ran interpretations of modern American life by Thomas Benton and others of the realistic school [TIME, Dec. 24, 1934]. I think that in both cases the pictures chosen for reproduction were intelligently selected- 'tho my opinion does not amount to anything, since I am a mere dabbler in this field-yet the few chances that I have to come in contact with work like this are so rare that I hope you will think it worth while to give me, and others like me, more of these interesting pages. ELSIE HOLLOMAN...