Word: fermentations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ASSERTING that there is a "genuine ferment on the campus" and hoping that this ferment will lead to a union of college youth marching on the "path to an ordered, cooperative, profitless society," James Weschler has, with his admirably written study of the "Revolt on The Campus" made an important contribution to our understanding of the present maelstrom of confused tendencies of political thought and action as they whirl about the ivyed walls. Documented with care and thoroughness, organized with skill and clarity the work is also very readable. Mr. Weschler has a clear swift moving style which makes...
Even before ballots were counted it was evident that to a large extent they could provide no clean-cut solution, so vigorously is Canada in ferment. Assuming, as most Canadians did before the count, a substantial victory for Mr. King & Liberals, they likewise assumed that he or any other Canadian who could conceivably become Premier now in coalition must steer a tortuous middle course: on one side are established bourgeois elements who still cast most of the ballots, and on the other the restive toilers who do not know what they want but are broadly out to soak the rich...
...time the pirates reach her the Kin Lung is wallowing in a ferment of plots, counterplots, scandals and frustrations. Captain Gaskell has broken with China Doll to become engaged to Sybil (Rosalind Russell). China Doll, chagrined, has stolen his key to the ship's armory, given it to MacArdle. The owner of the line (C. Aubrey Smith) has delivered a short talk on the lure of the Orient. During the typhoon a lashed steamroller has rolled loose on deck, crushing coolies until, owing to the cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain...
...House Divided quits the Chinese hinterland of peasant and warlord for an unnamed treaty port and for the life of a Chinese student in the U. S. Wang Yuan, son of Wang the Tiger of Sons, is part of the ferment of the "new China" of Sun Yatsen...
...Daily Bread (Viking). For the average Hollywood producer, Depression furnished a number of tedious gags, a few new turns for old plots. But it failed to invest the cinema with much New Deal sentiment, much sense of economic ferment. This fact has long rankled in the impatient mind of thick-lipped, shock-haired King Vidor...