Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course the obvious answer to this sort of reasoning is that it is impossible to treat anything as a work of art unless it be thoroughly understood; which is only possible after long and careful study of the many details in which the ancient languages differ from modern. This work must be preliminary to any broader treatment of literature...
Such reasoning had so obvious an appeal to the Chamber that Premier Paul-Boncour threw overboard some of Papa Chéron's most onerous taxes and economies. For a time the Cabinet seemed to have been saved. It won a vote of confidence 348 to 243. The Chamber voted 400 to 181 to sit all night and began to vote sections of the budget, voted 65 of the 150 sections. Suddenly up popped an item of 5% reduction in the pay of civil servants. Socialist objections touched off pandemonium. "My heart is torn," cried stringy-haired Socialist Blum...
Hello, Everybody! (Paramount). Hollywood was upset last week by the financial crashing of two major producing companies, Paramount and RKO (see p. 46). A reason often advanced for the difficulties of cinema producers is radio. Hello, Everybody! is an obvious attempt to attract the radio public by exhibiting one of radio's most popular performers, huge Kate Smith, whose saccharine contralto has for two years been the mainstay of the La Palina cigar broadcast...
...news yardstick out the window. Last week offered a clear example. The Press gave columns to the dull doings of State Publishers' Associations convened throughout the land. It reported at length a Columbia University survey showing that most newspaper readers turn first to left-hand pages (for the obvious reason that right-hand pages are usually filled with advertising). The Press dwelt lovingly on a speech by Undersecretary of State Castle praising Washington correspondents. But the Press found no news in a $54,200 libel verdict against William...
...Perkins' none too restrained admirers. In the end, the situation is saved through the brilliance of Miss Bates; and it is delicious to observe the triumph of evil pleasantry over calm resolution, because the calm resolution gives way to consternation, and the evil pleasantry retains its philosophic if not obvious, calm...