Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold of two or three good dramatic ideas when he started, but he ruins them all by psychological flummery. The close of the second scene of the second act, when Jezebel dances and sings in triumph over the death of her enemy, would have been a really great moment if it had been properly led up to. Even the last scene would have been no such triumph of unverisimilitude if Davis had made General Rand more of a Southern gentleman and less a brutal hospital interne. As to the motivation of Jezebel herself, it seems fantastic. Such a woman...
Other defendants at the Reichstag trial, all of them acquitted, were still held in prison by the Hitler State last week while their relatives waited in dread lest they be confronted at any moment with another Nazi surprise fait accompli...
...musical, an illusion we had carried about New York literally for months. It certainly should have been a musical: it has just the right sort of plot, and even in the second act it is hard not to expect a chorus to come tripping on any moment, faces and limbs aglow with professional cheer. Our sense of hearing, dulled by this disappointment, and by the discovery that we had been trepanned off practically into the wings, was not helped by the acoustics of the Lyceum. Altogether there was every reason to come away from the play disgruntled and disquieted...
...which maintains, among other things that "it is far from a necessity or even an urgent need" that the Widener Reading Room should be kept open during the reading and examination periods. The correspondent's attitude toward this question is apparently largely shaped by the fact that at the moment he is engaged in defending the departments of Military and Naval Science. At any rate, it should be perfectly evident that his views regarding Widener are not generally shared by the undergraduate body. There is a very strong and a very justifiable body of sentiment which differs from Mr. Tillinghast...
...always be taken from the library at 5 P. M. and thus the evening is not closed to study. Perhaps the number of copies of one book in the reading room is limited, but may I point out that the student who does not wait until the last moment to do his work can get the book next day, should be miss out in the evening. But these arguments are not entirely necessary, for if the reading room were desperately needed during the evenings I still have enough confidence in Harvard to believe that the money would be supplied without...