Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current furore over "Grand Illusion," the film now playing at the Fine Arts, makes it fairly obvious that this is an excellent picture. Although it is no epoch-making production, Jean Renoir's slightly idealistic picture is certainly different from the movies produced in our Hollywood. On the average audience this differences has a great shock-effect, and it is this effect that is in turn misinterpreted as the stamp of a superior film...
...Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, who tried to remain clear-sighted in the face of hysteria, who protested America's entry into the War, were, naturally, traitors-though history has proved them right and proved the rest of us a gullible group of limp-wits, victims of the most obvious propaganda...
...Negroes are generally credited with two great contributions to U. S. folk music: 1) spirituals, 2) the musical dialect of jazz. Why these two contributions should be so different has long puzzled high & lowbrows. One obvious reason: spirituals are sacred and solemn, hence naturally slower and tamer than jazz...
...Great Britain. The President took pains to say he would receive ex-Foreign Minister Anthony Eden as one more visiting Englishman. But it was perfectly clear that they would meet this week as one democrat talking to another in an autocrats' world, for Mr. Eden quickly made it obvious that he had come to the U. S. as an apologist for Britain. Personable Mr. Eden had many an advantage for his job. Having quit as Neville Chamberlain's Foreign Secretary because he opposed the Chamberlain policy, he could talk easily to U. S. citizens who did not approve...
...Miller was of course the principal speaker at Red River's send-off last week. Perched on the rear stoop of the weather-blackened Garner shanty, he addressed the gathering of country folk from Possum Trot and Coon-Soup Hollow and assembled cameramen-anticipating most of the obvious objections to Garner-for-President: that he is too old (70 now; 72 by inauguration day in 1941) ; that he is reactionary by New Deal standards, that he is knifing Franklin Roosevelt or Franklin Roosevelt's man for 1940. Said Keynoter Miller...