Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carver's Profession (Columbia) is a solemn little problem picture, based on the notion that woman's place is in the home. The banality of this theme is only less startling than the fact that Robert Riskin, who wrote and adapted the story, was clearly under the delusion that he was proposing an explosively novel theory for behavior. This odd combination of circumstances has a peculiar effect. It gives the picture a disarming sincerity; because Fay Wray in a serious emotional role develops a skillful and moving performance, the trite machinations of the plot acquire an incongruous validity...
...changes for Harvard. Next autumn Andover will lighten its emphasis on modern and ancient languages, increase it on history, mathematics and science. The Crimson assumed that Andover's curriculum is based upon Harvard requirements. Ergo, Harvard would change too. Harvard officials quickly disabused the Crimson editors of their notion...
...interrupted from time to time by songs, which may well become as popular as the ones in 42nd Street, called "We're in the Money," "Petting in the Park," "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song," "Forgotten Men." Dance Director Busby Berkeley's most decorative notion was a "shadow waltz" with a chorus in triple-decked hoop skirts carrying phosphorescent violins. The stage presently darkens so that the violins appear to float about under their own power, finally waltz themselves into the outline of an immense bull fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when...
...parents and doctor, later coached a crack high school team. At Oxford, he rowed, played rugby. Back in the U. S., he taught English at Indiana University until 1915, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1921. U. S. education was growing rich and vast and Frank Aydelotte's notion was that it needed culture. All very well to provide education-for-all, but he feared pedagogs were neglecting the bright students who, if given the chance, could strike out for themselves and get ahead of their duller fellows. Democracy was a good thing, but applied to education it dragged...
...notion that a person who falls from a great height dies before striking the ground, was long ago exploded. But there remains room for curiosity about how it feels to fall for miles & miles. Last week new testimony came from one John Tranum, professional 'chute jumper in England, who fell farther than any man had ever fallen and lived to tell the tale. Jumper Tranum stepped out of a Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated...