Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the ambition of the Yale News to make itself a "newspaper" instead of an "institution," everyone of sense must be in thorough sympathy. With its farewell to stodginess and political conservatism we are in particular sympathy. But with their "farewell to academic idealism" and their disparagement of "super-scholars" and their familiar cry for education aimed at the skull of the "average man," we are in profound disagreement...
Crime and Punishment (adapted by Victor Trivas & Georg Schdanoff; Wolfson & Sherry, producers). Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again. This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches...
...week Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw, assistant director of the Normal Child Development Clinic where the Woods twins were under scientific control from their 20th day, explained: "Jimmy and Johnny have both, I think, lost out in their home environment and, while that is disappointing so far as these two particular children are concerned, it is theoretically encouraging. You can't take a child the first year up here and then throw him back and expect his experience to affect his entire life. Environment counts all of the time...
Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, at one point in the debate endeavored to make clear to Huey his position concerning a particular question. The Kingfish replied: "The Senator's position is very clear; but, still, of course, to a mind constructed as mine is, it is not understandable." And Mr. Robinson rejoined: "Of course I am not responsible for that." The Record adds parenthetically, laughter...
...court will lay down in unequivocal language that actions in the control of currencies which are open to other nations shall not be denied the U. S. . . . . In acting as it did the Congress acted for the benefit of the country as a whole and not for that of particular groups of persons. . . . This is not a case of Federal activity reaching out into a private area. These gold clauses have invaded the Federal field. These payments are on Federal territory. They are squatters on the Federal domain...