Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Technically this inner quality is manifested in a tremendous vitality expressed with an understanding of the values of rhythm and mass. And there is a often fine organic unity which shows in a plastic sense, surpassing that of most civilized peoples. This is attributable to the wooden medium which of its nature gives a flexibility lacking in stone. The surfaces in particular are of unusual quality and reflect the laborious workmanship involved in the creation...
...never before been given to any German government. This support is based on the pathological condition of the German people, on a state of mind induced by post-war defeatism which was particularly strong in the disillusioned youth of the Republic. Thus the public mind was in a peculiarly plastic form and the Nazis were able to mold it with the greatest ease and confidence...
...hand-picked students, limited to 125 per class. It has all Boston's hospitals for laboratory, most topnotch Boston doctors on its staff. The Medical School plumes itself on Elliott Carr Cutler, 45 (brain surgery); Walter Bradford Cannon, 62 (physiology); Hans Zinsser, 55 (bacteriology); Varaztad Hovannes Kazanjian, 54 (plastic surgery...
...activities and looked upon as 'Ann Harding's husband,' " her producers have persistently set her to exploring marital problems of the day. Gallant Lady, a courteous description of a self-consciously noble character, catches up themes familiar to her recent pictures. Instead of the lovelorn plastic surgeon in The Right to Romance, blonde Actress Harding this time is an arty and lovelorn lady named Sally Wyndham who after a tragic love affair gives up her baby, goes to Italy as an interior decorator's agent to forget. There she packs up the Renaissance chapel...
...intelligent person might read and even enjoy, being free from the customary pomposity and elephantic periods of the bench. It stated quite clearly that to call a sincere effort "to show how the screen of consciousness with its ever shifting kaleidoscopic impressions carries, as it were on a plastic palimpsest, not only what is in the focus of each man's observation of the actual things about him, but also in the penumbral zone residua of past impressions" cannot reasonably be dismissed as obscenity. If Judge Woolsey never brandishes a gavel again, he will, notwithstanding, have amply justified by this...