Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Films used in Professor Dixon's course on Oceanica depict the intimate lives and habits of the Polynesians, Melanesians, and inhabitants of the East Indies. Tribal dances and customs such as fire walking in the Fiji Islands, and tatooing and tapa making in Samoa, are shown in detail...
...writer's work. Previous Meyer-Investigators, notably Brecht, d'Harcourt, and Faesi, have arrived rather by deductive means, at conclusions suggesting this, for example Faesi's statement that artistic creations may be either image or counterpart of their creator; but no scholar hitherto has advanced so logically from detail to totality, and none has formulated as precisely this ultimate answer to the problem, as the author of this book. Not that Meyer was the spirit of an Italian condottiere in the body of a burgher of the humdrum Swiss nineteenth century, but that through overcompensation for his won sickly body...
With careful factual detail Author Boden tells of a Derbyshire miner's life, with all its withering working details. The narrow tunnels, the coal seams in which men pick lying sideways all day, the half-blind ponies, the constant fear make up a pretty picture of hell. Above ground things are complicated by lockouts, strikes, broken-spirited drunkenness, and filth. Danny is luckier than most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin...
...That late press routine kept up even through the days in Cleveland, long after TIME was an established success and a mechanical staff had been trained to take up some of the drudgery. It was Brit's enormous capacity for drudgery and detail as well as the inspiration of his original mind, which won him the complete loyalty and affection of his staff. Once he had an office boy named William. William was not a brilliant boy, but he was smart enough to understand the spirit of the office, and young enough to exaggerate it almost comically...
...planting incriminating evidence against himself 2) getting arrested for the crime, 3) writing his own account of the trial for his newspaper 4) introducing, at the last minute evidence that will exonerate him and catch the real culprits off their guard. His plan fails in the last detail. The evidence- a purse containing the name of the murderer's companion-is stolen and young Chick Brian (Eric Linden) seems likely to be chairman at an electrocution His fiancée (Dorothy Jordan), whose father is police chief, can do nothing to help him. He is saved finally...