Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modernization in China was a failure because of the country's size, and her difficulty with domestic revolts. In 1894 war with China over her shadowy suzerainty in Korea gave Japan a chance to prove her military superiority. The obvious mastery of western technique, Gardner said, by a formerly despised oriental neighbor went far to shake Chinese scholars from an attitude of complacent self-satisfaction...
Most shocking declaration in the pastoral, thought the letter writers, was that the Civil War is "an armed plebiscite." Replied their letter: "An 'armed plebiscite' is an obvious absurdity, sinister in the contempt it reflects for democratic procedure." Taking Catholic partisanship in the Spanish war as partisanship against democracy, the U. S. letter asked: "Is this to be the policy of the Catholic Church in other democratic countries, where antecedents of the present Spanish struggle were fought to a conclusion centuries ago, and Church and State permanently separated? . . . Certainly the contrast between the respected and secure position...
Unlike British Major Geoffrey McNeill-Moss's factually authoritative but notably pro-Rebel account of one of the most heroic episodes in Spain's civil war (The Siege of Alcazar; Knopf: $3.50), Sommerfield's book is unpretentious historically, uninsistent politically, is marred only by a too-obvious leaning towards Ernest Hemingway in style. It provides an excellent report of one man's experiences, impressions, in battle, offers in two or three of its episodes descriptions hardly-to-be-forgotten of life in wartime. For these in particular, most readers will find it valuable...
...pretty hard to pass judgment on a picture such as this. The opening seenen of bayonet technique were amusing to the audience when in reality they were far more horrible in their subtlety than the more obvious scenes of death and destruction which make audiences shudder. Miss George is almost over-sincere and shows her age, Mr. Tracy does as well as the script allows him, and though his portrayal seems a bit of a patch-work, it is not his fault. Furthermore, the film falls a little flat in its climax...
...should be obvious that something more pot-cut and more pleasant than rather bitter orange juice will be necessary to drive the Freshmen to drink. Yours very truly, James Clark...