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Superbly acted, with English titles to translate its polyglot dialogue, Grand Illusion's principal defect is that an occasional exaggerated attention to detail tends to retard its pace. It is notable for restoring Erich von Stroheim (a top-priced director until a combination of extravagant pictures and his own erratic temperament cut short his Hollywood career) to the screen in a more sympathetic role than those he used to play. Good shot: the moment at the dress rehearsal of a prison show when the first member of the cast tries on a woman's dress...
...only courses which can qualify as Spanish literature courses. The former is a general view, corresponding to French 6, and could almost stand being a full course. Professor Ford gives both this and number 2 on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Cervantes. The defect of the other Spanish literature courses is that there is too much emphasis on the mechanics of translation. Whittem, and to a lesser degree Rivera, are both at their best on composition and tend to neglect the literary aspect of their material...
...MacCollum's opinion, lop ears are not due to improper care in childhood but are a congenital defect. A three-month fetus has lop ears, but if the baby is born with them it shows that something happened to the ears' development during the pre-natal period...
Beneath the latest Red scares about Granville Hicks, the Cambridge schoolchildren and the Young Communists lies a serious defect in the University Administration. Harvard tends to be so sure that what it is doing is right that it ignores the publicity angle of its actions and allows itself to be grievously misrepresented. The result of such a policy is to seen in this week's papers, with all the politicians and patriots in full cry after the Red menace, and all sorts of organizations passing resolutions against the college. It cannot be denied that in Massachusetts at present there...
Psychiatrists at Chicago's Institute of Juvenile Research watched Frank Balek's performance, offered no explanation. When his eyes were tested, no visual defect was found to account for his peculiarity. Today Frank's principal, William R. Bowlin, is on the lookout for signs of inverted sight in other pupils to catch slight tendencies in that direction that can be corrected. He stands behind a child, calls him unexpectedly. If the child turns his head to the left rather than to the right to see the principal, it is considered a sign of inversionist tendencies...