Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three bad boys" of Morningside Heights, who love always to blow up old dogmas of education. Sailing with great gusto into the teaching based on folkways and tradition, he preaches a schooling tied to the life of today, teaching the latest social problems in the everchanging, indeterminate manner of modern culture itself. The great object of his scorn is the smugness with which schools tend to sit back and survey their methods of instruction...
...Sample placard: "What manner of men are these who try to throttle Ph.D...
...Pursuit of Happiness, as a serious young woman with journalistic ambitions which have no outlet for the moment except acting as her mother's secretary. The horn-rimmed glasses and blue jeans in which she first appears vanish quickly, but not the raspberry-ice freshness of manner which saves her cutenesses from being altogether silly. A topical note is injected into this warm and sprightly comedy when she asks her father: ''What do you think of these 15 judges-do you think he'll get away with it?" "Well," her father answers, "he usually does...
...turn of the Century and in the years that immediately followed, when John Singer Sargent was painting socialite portraits in the British manner, Henry James was preaching the superiority of European civilization, and Architect Stanford White felt that a copy of a Spanish Cathedral's bell tower was the proper thing for a horse show and prizefight auditorium, a few U. S. artists began discovering the American Scene. Many of them were born in Philadelphia, most of them were influenced by the earlier painting of Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins, all of them lived and worked in New York...
Lionel Barrymore as the remonstrating father of Duval is excellent, and as coldly logical as usual. The minors are carefully chosen, and reproduce the France of Louis Philippe in a lively manner. Notable scenes are Marguerite's first wild party and the animated bee-hiving expedition...