Word: makeshift
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...past the Social Ethics department has been a neglected makeshift composed of men from various allied fields without unity or central control. This lack of definite leadership has retarded progress, and crippled research. A few years ago some attempt was made to simplify this cumbrous arrangement by the introduction of the tutorial system, but even this failed to stimulate any original thought in the unwieldy organization...
...when fabric covering her port stabilizer finally yielded to the whipping of the wind and tore loose-a mishap similar to that which befell the Graf Zeppelin on her first Atlantic flight. Without parachutes, members of the R-100's crew crawled precariously about the tattered fin, made makeshift repairs...
...front line sector-their amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other-all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen-a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast was recruited in Hollywood. Last shot...
...front line sector?their amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other?all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen?a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast was recruited in Hollywood. Last shot: the scene...
...socially satirical, slapstick. But despite the romances and lampoons and picturesqueness, it is the reliable spirit of low comedy which prevails. There is a comical, hungry goat, and there is Mr. Reginald Carrington as a lovable old Lord who can scarcely move without veering into some of the precarious makeshift furniture, thereby causing its collaspse. Whenever the tempo lags or the substance thins, some such violent commotion as Mr. Carrington's table-toppling is almost bound to provoke a horselaugh...