Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne; TIME, May...
Whatever else Ben Hecht may be damned for-and blasphemy is likely to be included-he cannot be accused of writing A Book of Miracles for money. One of Hollywood's highest-paid writers (The Front Page, Let Freedom Ring, etc.), he forswore 15 months' salary to write it. (His movie salary is around $6,000 a week.) But for Hecht it was "fun writing what I want-without having Sam Goldwyn peering over my shoulder." Fun for Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Love-gaudy, swashbuckling, ranting books, splashed with...
...that suicide Author Brinig (The Sisters, May Flavin) found the subject for Anne Minion's Life readymade. But he copied only part of the story-the physical details of how Anne Minton commits suicide. For his main story he leaves tormented Anne teetering on the ledge while he draws several characters from the mob below. Anne's suicide is pictured as less a tragedy than a blessing. Because of her example the wife of an unemployed worker cancels her trip to an abortionist (her husband has found a job when she gets home). A philandering playboy makes amends...
...other hand", he warned, "a study of the past should remind us of the fallibility of all human judgements, even those of the best informed. What appear to be clear-cut issues to one generation may seem nebulous uncertainties to their descendants...
...universities, President Conant said, "the traditional wisdom of the past meets the flood tides of the moment. From their cross-currents flow new ideas, a few of which may live to enrich a later generation." Since the work of scholars can only be judged by their "long-run significance," he remarked that "they may be permitted to interpose at times a caveat to all who would regard the imperious demands of the present as sure guides for the future...