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...propaganda. Hero is Kevebel Kima, a long haired, slant-eyed native of that swamp- land past the Siberian frontiers called Taiga. The theme is the conflict between the native's devotion to his tribal law, which stipulates that possession is a sacred right of the possessor, and the Soviet dicta that possession is the right of the neediest. Less stylized and re- lieved of its propaganda content, the feud between Kima and a rich local fur trader might have been a great story. In its present form it is interesting principally because it was made in the Taiga. Good shots...
...Author. Miguel de Unamuno, onetime rector of the University of Sala manca (Spain's oldest), great philosopher of Spain, bitter enemy of the recent dictatorship, was banished by the late Dicta tor Primo de Rivera, spent six years in exile in France. Last February Primo de Rivera fell, an amnesty was declared (TIME, Feb. 10), Unamuno returned to Spain. Said he: "I return to work for the Spanish Republic!" Home only a few weeks, he was attacked by a savage dog in Zamora, had his left arm broken, his right hand badly torn...
Enthusiastic if undistinguished drawings caricatured Donor Harkness on the back stoop eagerly picking up the News and the morning milk to see how his program was being received; shadowy, demoniac, pedagogs were pictured pouring down a horrid sworl of dicta and mandates upon a helpless undergraduate; the Corporation (board of Trustees) was seen servilely waiting upon the Harkness pleasure...
Soon the personnel of Washington's 14 colleges knew that President Spencer had more practical devices up his sleeve than the delivery of dicta. Lest the University grow sleepy with self-assurance, he had prepared a means of scrutinizing his curriculum, plumbing his pedagogs through the clear eyes of some 7,700 undergraduates. The faculty was to receive the stimulus by seeing themselves as students saw them...
...innovations will there be; how will people live in the tall buildings? Two architect-prophets have recently published books* in which each essays to predict the future of the metropolis. Le Corbusier, a Swiss whose real name is Charles Edouard Jeanneret, famed in Paris for his revolutionary ideas and dicta on city-planning, tells didactically and illustrates exhaustively his version of the future. Hugh Ferriss, romantic U. S. draftsman of modernistic architectural elevations in black and white, illustrates his predictions with drawings which he calls "not entirely random shots in the dark...