Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Power (Gaumont-British). About the only theme on which the cinema is able to express a definite opinion is the virtue of tolerance. The misfortunes of Jews in Germany supply an apt text for sermons on this subject. An adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger's famed novel Jew Suss, Power lacks both the clarity and the subtlety of its original but it is not, like A Lost Lady, needless vandalism. Angry and outspoken, it derives force from its sincerity and amounts to an elaborate parable of which there are two reels too many...
...parallels were easy to find. Chief Inspector Fressard of the Lille police received threats of violent death unless he dropped the case. Two Paris shopkeepers, wanted by the police to tell what they knew about Paul Mariani & friends, were found shot dead in a compartment aboard the Paris-Mediterranean Express...
...transport which other lines must sooner or later meet. Last week two major airlines famed for their safety records announced their entry into the superspeed class. Eastern Air Lines, which has flown 300,000 passengers 25,000,000 miles without a single fatality,* will operate an eight-hour express service from New York to Miami with a fleet of Douglases to be delivered by Jan. 1. Northwest Airlines, which in eight years has flown 80,000 passengers 8,500,000 miles without a single fatality, announced future schedules of eight hours between Chicago and Seattle...
...student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the Instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
...actual attack on the Guide can be discounted since none of it discusses the merits of our criticism. The Bulletin's apparent belief, however, that Dean Leighton should have not written the foreword cannot pass without notice. His belief in the Harvard tradition--the right to criticize and to express criticisms freely--has been strengthened through his contacts with Freshmen and their opinions. He has had the courage to follow his belief out to its logical conclusion in the face of unavoidable criticism. Certainly it is this type of man, who is open to comment, favorable and unfavorable, that belongs...