Word: moulds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Valentino's ideas are not from the stereotyped mould designed for an interview with any given "star" (leaving blanks for name and sex). He offers some interesting and constructive suggestions. One of these is that authors for the screen must write better literature,--startling doctrine from a "movie man"! The average literary critic looks upon the scenario writer as on a lower rung in the anthropological ladder and on the actor as a mechanical if "artistic" mimic who follows his director's instructions as far as they are printable. The actor turns on the scenario writer in self-defense...
...inhuman as to call him from his play to books; and the child persisting later finds his professor inhuman. This notion is the school-boy's heritage and is so strong that when an attempt is made to popularize a course, when the professor tries to escape the mould the student fastens upon him, he is criticized as sugar-coating a pill which is preferred bitter, as feebly trying to curry the student's favor...
...however, be difficult flatly to deny any statement saying it is the colleges that influence the high schools. Of course, each influences the other; but we are of the opinion that the college exerts much the greater pressure. For instance, the college sets certain entrance requirements, and these particularly mould school curricula. The college has a magazine, so must the preparatory or high school. The college has athletic teams, so the others follow...
...establishment of training tables and the revised attendance periods, Winter track is fairly well under way. Practice is being held daily, regardless of weather and the ever increasing number of candidates, totalling 165 to date, has furnished the coaches with an ample quantity of material from which to mould a team for the opening contest with Millrose at New York on February...
...elected and plans for the season will be outlined. During the year meetings will be held to discuss subjects of general interest. The club will not be for debaters alone but will be open to all men interested in discussion. It is the purpose of the club to mould the team that will face Yale and Princeton on April 28 from the best material in the class...