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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweethearts (Metro-GoIdwyn-Mayer). Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, unchanged by modern clothes and Technicolor...
...characteristic of the rest of the Fair architects, as of the exposition they designed, was their collaborative harmony. Fellow members of the Bohemian Club, august sanctuary of San Francisco tradition, most of them shared a mellow view of architecture and were damned if they would kill themselves advancing the modern cause in new materials and organic form. New York City's 1939 Fair already had a lien on the World of Tomorrow. Chairman Kelham and crew therefore plumped for a pleasuredom on "Treasure Island," an imaginative. quasi-Oriental "Never-Never Land...
...Modern Colonnade. Restrained as its glamor mostly is, and unified by a compact and accessible plan, the Fair may well weary its visitors less, refresh them more than if it had serious pretensions. From a structural standpoint it is preeminently stage design, fakery. Two big hangar buildings of steel and concrete and an administration building, all permanent fixtures of the new airport, are exceptions to this rule, and greatest exception of all is the Federal Building, separated from the rest by a lagoon and a parade ground. This is the work of San Francisco's genial, hardbitten, unpredictable Timothy...
Schizophrenia. Nourishment of the brain depends upon two important substances: sugar and oxygen. Modern treatment for schizophrenia is shockingly severe. When a schizophrenic is given insulin, his brain gets little sugar and shock ensues. Given metrazol, a drug with a camphor-like action, he goes into convulsions, stops breathing, shock ensues. Such shock blots out hallucinations, or delusions of persecution. Main trouble with insulin or metrazol treatment, however, is that the profundity and length of the shock cannot be easily controlled. Dr. Harold Edwin Himwich and associates of Albany Medical College reported in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental...
...Southern agrarians (Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al.). Like the rest of those resolute, nostalgic patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead men, whose heroism he tries to embalm in lifelike verses. Sample (on Andrew Jackson's statue in Nashville...