Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future of the motion picture industry will depend on college men," is the opinion of Adolph Zukor, President of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Mr. Zukor was speaking to a CRIMSON reporter Saturday, at the conclusion of his address at the Business School. "College trained men are becoming more in demand each year in the picture making business and I see the time not far in advance when they will be demanded exclusively. When I entered this business about 20 years ago, man from college despised motion pictures. To work for such a company was far beneath their dignity. But within...
...Count was "a tall supple figure, indefinite features, eyes which in Bismarck's opinion were enough to spoil the best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch the young Prince." Soon Eulenburg could write in his diary: "The Prince's affection for me was an ardent one . . . my musical performances drove him into almost feverish, raptures . . . always sitting beside me and turning the pages . . . and he loved to greet me with turns and phrases from my verses...
...revision "begins with the idea that the United States was a sluggard in its own War, that it was mean in remaining out of the League of Nations, selfish in kicking itself out of the World Court and can be made respectable only by paying cash for the good opinion of the world, a boss prostitute taking its only chance for redemption. . . . We'd rather Princeton played dirty football under Roper than shamefaced internationalism under Hibben...
...killed themselves last fortnight, bring the total for the so-called "wave" to 36 since New Year's (TIME, Feb. 7 et seq.). One enterprising news agency furnished an exclusive account of a girl student's suicide in Constantinople. A Cambridge University man slew himself. The opinion of almost anyone as to an underlying "cause" for the "wave," continued to make good copy...
Asked if, in his opinion, the present unrest in Europe and China were due to American motion pictures, Mr. Lasky answered, "Yes, to a certain degree. How much our pictures influenced foreigners is difficult to ascertain, but we are certain they have some influence. Europeans and Chinese, as well as other foreigners, see in American films the many facilities that make our life more pleasant, and perhaps easier; and it creates in them a certain restless feeling. This causes them to want to be free, and I believe, has some influence on our immigration problem...