Word: escapist
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...banquet in Baker Rink, the Class of '26 gave the University $150,000. And world-weary Princetonians of the Class of 1921 wistfully toasted the memory of the finest escapist of them all, Classmate Richard Halliburton, lost at sea seven years ago as he followed his Royal Road to Romance. Old grads glowing too gloriously were put to bed by 500 helpful undergrads-some in sheetless cots lent by Red Cross Disaster Relief...
...escapist Utopias that mush roomed in the shadow of the industrial revolution. Father Rapp's was the least suggestive of milk & honey. His first ven ture was in Germany. The spiritual leader of a flock of phlegmatic German peasants, Peasant Rapp was a mystic with a sound business head. In 1804 he brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists...
...Escapist entertainment first turned to the good earth of our country with "Oklahoma." After several seasons when nearly every major offering has glorified the American ideal, it is more escapist and quite refreshing to look at a handsome musical of the best pre-war vintage set far from the North American continent. "Much Ado About Love" takes a fling in Renaissance Italy with a sparkling score, and the very English Melville Cooper to give an Ernest Truex air of sophistication...
Amid an atmosphere of multi-colored hatching suits in an ideal California setup, Esther Williams and Red Skelton run through the paces of another trivial, escapist musical. The big surprise is that "bathing beauty" Esther can actually swim...
...cannot conceive of any reason for the attitude this picture has taken. The movie industry as a whole has been a burden on the war effort. It has failed to turn out good propaganda, for one thing, and to round out a picture of inefficiency, its escapist fare has been extraordinarily bad. When one looks around at the Russian, German, and British film industries, laboring under worse handicaps and turning out consistently more effective stuff than the "great" American movie magnates, one wonders where Hollywood gets the gall to bare a back tattooed "Pat Here" to the American pubic...