Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern Times" has descended from the flashy banners and is now doing a routine week's term at the Paramount and Fenway. If you missed him the first time, by all means go now. But be a little cautious about indulging that vague inclination toward a second seeing. It isn't quite no funny the second time to see Mr. Chaplin dive into four inches of water mistaken for a lake, or to watch him lead a Communist parade through the accident of having picked up a red flag fallen from the hind end of a truck...
This is all very uproarious the first time, however, and if you turn down this chance you may have to wait another five years for the next picture, for Chaplin vehicles are not street cars. Chaplin is an anachronism; having learned the art of pantomime for the silents, he isn't going to give it up because some fool invented a way to make the flickers squawk. And being old-fashioned, he restores slapstick to its lusty youth. It dazzles by the force of its mad pollmell succession. The tempo is definitely stepped up way above normal; the old trick...
That's the whole trouble, isn't it? Those professors are too good at giving other people ideas. When they get their hands on a bunch of students you can't tell what might happen. They even let the students think sometimes...
...Germany that the world hated her and wanted to enslave her for all time. It is just the kind of feeling that your editorial represents and the kind of action that it endorses that put Hitler more firmly in the saddle and make many of us wonder whether he isn't justified in renouncing dictated treaties...
...isn't that a childish interrogation? Instead of working out psychological puzzles, would not you be wiser to use the celebrated French logic and think it out? Isn't it obviously wiser for our two countries to get along together? Wouldn't it be ruinous for both to crash against each other on new battlefields? Isn't it logical that I would wish what is most advantageous for my country? And that which is most advantageous, isn't it obviously peace...