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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the first to receive serious consideration by the Council, Toomey's proposal is the least ambitious of several plans of city councilors affecting University property. Some members of the Council would like to see the University give land to Cambridge which could be used as children's playgrounds...
...Japanese peasant is rigidly controlled by 1) rural custom, 2) government edict. Embree gives the intricate design of that control, suggests its points of stress. Suye Mura, like thousands of Japanese farming villages, is largely sustained by work exchange and other forms of communal cooperation. Farmers cooperate with their neighbors in rice growing, financing the needy (a credit pool is often a form of lottery that continues for years), bridge building, house building, roof repairing, funeral arrangements, and frequent drinking parties celebrating the completion of farming jobs or such vital events as birth, marriage, or the sending of a conscripted...
Sebastian speaks his piece in a vivid, gifted, rather artificial language, like a Celtic rhapsodist. Sample...
...with pity. Harvard still inclines to a tradition of "pure" liberal arts, devoid of much practical application. But long ago colleges realized each subject can grow only in its own medium, that to write drama for an English composition course--and yet keep it divorced from the stage--is like reading chemistry without carrying on laboratory experiments. Playwrights like Sidney Howard, Eugene O'Neill and Philip Barry thrived under Professor Baker because the workshop tested their lines through informal productions and moulded them into shape; the designers and artists translated their sets and costumes from empty drawings to reality. Each...
...pictures. They just brush up some sure-fire actors, plaster them with depressing make-up, and let the cameras grind. In the really good French films, they create an aesthetic standard all their own. This standard, grim and gory, vaguely reminiscent of some wind-swept parts of Wagner, is like a bucketful of cold water when it hits an American audience bottle-fed on the soothing cream of Hollywood...