Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featherlight, the tale gets going when Jupiter's bang-crash arrival on earth- he forgot the law of gravitation-brings it home to him that assuming human simplicity is going to be a very complicated process. To gain Alcmena he has to sacrifice his wistful whim to be loved for himself alone. Husbandly attention Alcmena welcomes, lover's desire she abhors. "Desire is a half-god," she affirms. "Let's leave the half-gods to the adolescent girls and the casually married." In the battle of wits and wills between the omnipotent god and the constant matron...
Though most people think they feel sympathy for human wretchedness, it is a remarkable fact that present-day proletarian paintings are in general formalized, strained and snide. Painters like the late George Luks and George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
...Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand-in is the most human as well as the most biting comedy yet written about Hollywood. After its preview, violent protests were made by rival organizations. Twentieth Century-Fox felt uneasiness because Joan Blondell burlesques Shirley Temple singing "The Good Ship Lolly-pop." Report had it that the character of Director Koslofski was a damaging caricature...
...accomplishments of Albert Szent-Györgyi. Amiable son of a once wealthy Hungarian, son-in-law of a one-time Hungarian postmaster general, as thoroughly Hungarian as paprika, this Wartime Hungarian army medical officer started, after the Armistice, to learn what happens to food in the human body. He was particularly interested in the progress of carbohydrates (starches and sugars). These enter the mouth, change into a variety of transient substances, nourish every cell in the body, leave the body with the breath as simple carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) gas and water (H 2 O) vapor...
Errol Flynn, God's gift to this puny human race, displays how the perfect man should disport himself when caught between the realism of a woman's world and the idealism of a life of complete social vapidity. Pursued by Joan Blondell, who is not over-subtle in her go-getting, Mr. Flynn knocks out Allan Jenkins, prize fighter extraordinary, fights in his place, and pursues his inconsequential way through the rest of the film...