Word: familiars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power of Evans' work," says Critic Lincoln Kirstein in an excited but penetrating commentary, "lies in the fact that he so details the effect of circumstances on familiar specimens that the single face, the single house, the single street, strikes with the strength of overwhelming numbers, the terrible cumulative force of thousands of faces, houses and streets." Photographer Evans himself likes some of his pictures because of their designed humor, others for a quality of care and sensitiveness poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered...
Sirs: Having read with interest the many letters pro and con on the New Deal I have since wondered how many readers are familiar with a quotation attributed by Elbert Hubbard* to Abraham Lincoln: "Inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things ought to belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others, without labor, have enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product...
...Substantial justice" is the desideratum which the new rules (86 of them) aim to speed and attain. New in the U. S. (but familiar in England) is a provision for pre-trial hearings,† wherein a judge (who later is not the trial judge) calls before him the lawyers for both sides of a civil suit, determines with them the real issues involved, weeds out unessential witnesses, evidence and testimony, shortcuts the lawyers' technical maneuvers, (demurrers, motions to strike out, etc., etc.), thus saves time for the trial judge, jury and clients. The new rules also provide...
...Bros., Paramount, United Artists, MGM. This assortment of alliances comes from their disliking to sign for more than a one-picture contract. Of their six pictures they, like the public, vote Love Me Tonight, with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, the best. There pours out of them an old familiar tale-of a Hollywood cockeyed, imbecile, exciting, exasperating. The medium: marvelous. The methods: terrible. "Music," they insist, "must be written for the camera. People can't just stand around and sing songs." For Rodgers, the usual experience was to hand in a score and, when the picture was produced...
...finally, he was bending over the contents of the brown envelope, mechanically reading the familiar registration formulae and still more automatically printing name, address, name, address, in countless little squares. He felt virtuous at the mere fact of being here, smugly so at being here on time, considering the conspiracy of God and man to keep him out of New England...