Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three standpoints, aesthetic, intellectual; and social. As to the first, the actual equipment at Yale for those interested in music, the arts, and cultural subjects, ranks high. But as for stimulating a permanent interest in these things, Yale, in common with most higher institutions, does, on the whole, a poor job. The same is true to a lesser extent of intellectual interests. Here again the equipment is excellent, but what one learns has, in general, little relation to one's permanent interests and is usually soon forgotten. The new reading periods, it should be noted, offer possibilities of definite contributions...
...always suspected Iowa's Coach Barry, who came from Madison, Wis., of trafficking with spies on Wisconsin strategies. When Williams joined the Barry camp, Dr. Meanwell was convinced of the worst. But this season, when Dr. Meanwell was subjected to hot alumni fire for his team's poor showing, loyal "Rollie'' Williams wrote the Press in defense of his oldtime teacher...
Because his marks were so poor that he would have to begin his third year as a sophomore next September, Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller, 21. fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., left Yale. He now works in the family oil business...
...little out of date. Though brutally realistic novels with tough slum heroes will doubtless continue to be written, their day is waning with the reading public. Of their departing kind The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan is a worthy example. The Lonigans were decent Irish Catholics, dwellers in a poor Chicago neighborhood. But they thought of themselves as citizens of no mean city. Young Studs took to his tough environment like an alley-cat to a garbage can-fought, smoked, played football in vacant lots, shot pool, went with whores, drank rotgut, occasionally made his confession. In his weaker moments...
Sylvia Sidney and Frederick March prove conclusively in "Good Dame" that the director, scenario writer, and author of a movie can be quite insignificant. Without a good story the, two speak poor lines so that one thinks that one is hearing the best lines from the best play of Shakespeare. No doubt it is quite difficult to believe that two simple souls can be quite perfect in the cinema. You think that these two hams are receiving too much credit, that no actor or actress from Hollywood could achieve so much fame legitimately. My opinion would blast all previous ones...