Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are those in navy blue with cowls on their heads. They hurry about in the dim blue light of great factories filled with the sickly smell of chemicals. They carry yard after yard of what looks like pastry. On the walls are signs: ONE MISTAKE CAN BRING DISASTER. The pastry is gunpowder in the making and if the women did not wear their cowls they would go home at night with inflammable hair. "I like the work," says one. "My husband is mobilized. I must do some thing to keep the family going. Oh no, we never think about...
...season. But none of the second year men liked lickings, and Ed Buckley, Bud Finegan, and Will Webber were in a position to do something about it. Whenever they were ready to play good basketball, Charley Lutz was there waiting for them. Even the greenest supporting cast could not dim Lutz's brilliance, and Sophomores like Buckley, Webber, Finegan, Joe Romano, Ed Rothschild, Jack Penson, and Johnny Rigby had undoubted ability...
...first four stories are ancient history; 1) a martyred pathfinder, before 7000 B.C. prototype of Osiris, of Jesus, of the Artist; 2) a dim-witted burglar vivisected by Alexandrian scientists (Result: "We have now proved . . . that the arteries circulate air to the body from the lungs. ... It makes a man proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever...
...could have been invented if not for the students. The faculty? Of course the faculty had to deal out grades; and grades were based on examinations. Vag wistfully remembered how he got an E for an upset stomach and an A for his flexible wrist. Shuddering, he pictured the dim Victorian Gothic church in which he had squatted tensely over his bluebook, too paralyzed to think, trusting implicitly his flying hand to remember what had evaporated within his brain. No, Vag decided energetically, if examinations and grades are bedfellows, let us chuck them both...
This time Lon Chancy Jr. (in his first big role) is hulking, dim-witted Lennie, who looks like a moronic Mr. Deeds, has a well-meant, heavy-handed way of stroking puppies, mice and young women into rigor mortis. Actor Burgess Meredith is George, Lennie's somewhat brighter brain. Betty Field (who meets Director Lewis Milestone's requirements of "just a simple young small-town girl with a body") is Mae, the somewhat floozied ranch wife whose neck Lennie inadvertently breaks...