Word: oblivion
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...play which won the Pulitzer Prize this year and is still playing in New York, "Men in White". Torn between conflicting obligations Dr. Furguson, played by Clark Gable, is faced with the problem of continuing what promises to be a brilliant career as a surgeon or "riding" to oblivion in a limousine" with the pretty face and figure of Myrna Loy at this side. Gable turns in an adequate performance and is decidedly better than he has been in some of his earlier pictures. Myrna Loy finds it difficult to register emotion convincingly and is much better in an exotic...
...long has the Council rested in complacent oblivion rising from its lethargy only occasionally to publish a report of its findings in connection with some problem. Shunning publicity it has carried on its work of formulating "student opinion' behind closed doors. The great majority of students remaining oblivious to its existence except when called upon to vote for members to its illustrious circle. The new members recently elected can make of the Council, if they choose, a useful institution truly representative of student opinion in the formulation of which all current ideas are given consideration...
...separated by intellectual and political incompatibilities too great to be reconciled. That these should have been forgotten, even temporarily, is a beautiful tribute to the power of an ideal. Human frailties, vanities, all the pathetic weaknesses of politicians and capitalists recede into the deep diminuendo of momentary oblivion. Oklahoma and Continental Can are at one! Osanna...
Long after bookshelves full of one-time best sellers have been carted off to the inevitable oblivion of church fairs and charity libraries, such photographic collections as "The Roosevelt Year" will be reopened and studied over. Pictures tell a story more easily, more quickly, and more convincingly than any conceivable collection of words. The tragic picture of Herbert Hoover and President Roosevelt driving together on March 4, 1933, both subdued at the ruins of a great country, approaches the classic. The photographs of riots and lynchings; cruel, pathetic, bestial, describe the animal man with a conciseness unattainable otherwise. The titles...
While Harvard University has been pointing with pride to the College and many of its graduate schools, the Engineering School has been going down hill at a speed that will soon take it into oblivion unless drastic steps are taken...