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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well cast and well photographed, Our Daily Bread is emotional rather than factual, directed by Vidor with a frequent eye to such devices as a shot of Mary knitting to show goodness, a shot of the wench playing a blues tune to show badness. Best sequence is the final one, done in the Russian manner. In it the community works furiously against time to dig an irrigation ditch from the river to their fields. Of this Director Vidor says: "I tried to develop it like a ballet. I aimed to get the effect of mounting drama through the movements...
Anyone watching the sky on a clear night is likely to see two or three meteors. As flaming bits of matter they usually disintegrate and disappear scores of miles up. Far less frequent are meteors big enough to make a daytime display and send fragments visibly hurtling to earth as meteorites. Yet within 24 hours last week two such phenomena caused excitement on opposite sides...
...desirable that the section men should have complete responsibility for their section because they are the only ones in close contact with the men. Frequent meetings of the members of the staff are of value to the students because they all should be doing the same things on the same day to allow discussion between members of different sections. There is also more respect for a thoroughly friendly staff than a formally compatible group. Especially should the Ph.D.'s try to remember that the minute matter which was the subject of his thesis is not of extremely great importance...
...both from the farmers and from party point of view, and what farmer will vote Republicans so as to have easy money taken away in exchange for the rather dubious privilege of tilling unwanted crops? Similar feeling prevails in the South-West, at present shaken by racial trouble, with frequent bombings of Japanese farms by bands of native whites...
Preliminary which will include two classes: from 8 to 18, from 18 to 21. Training in the first period will be conducted through the Fascist Balilla and Avanguardisti "to give boys a passion for military life through frequent contacts with the armed forces whose warlike traditions and glories will be re-evoked." Besides drilling, 20 hours of the high-school year will be devoted to military history (the Fascist version of Italy's part in the War): map reading, the organization and duties of the various branches of the service. No schoolboy may be promoted to a higher class...