Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...path of Christian pessimism is steered with just as sure a success. Dr. Niebuhr maintains that its pessimism is one pregnant with political change, as the pessimism of Buddha is not, and he does not neglect to show the role which this pessimism should play in radical political theory. The old argument against collectivism, that it is a system which ignores human imperfection, is turned into the argument that collectivism is a system based on human imperfection. It is, says Dr. Niebuhr, the unreasoning impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution...
...Questions Asked (By Anne Morrison Chapin; John Golden, producer) shows how a young patrician dipsomaniac (Ross Alexander) who boards a Staten Island ferry under the impression that it is a liner for Bermuda, achieves regeneration. On board, he prevents a young woman (Barbara Robbins), pregnant and unmarried, from tossing herself overboard. In the next scene he has married her and they are living in a penthouse with the young man's chatty but devoted mother (Spring Byington). Young Mrs. Raeburn is itching to tell her husband about her past and he is itching for the brandy bottle. Visits from...
...This picture is not, as advertisements might suggest, a musical comedy about bathing beauties. It is a U. S. imitation of Maedchen in Uniform, showing what happens to Christa (Dorothy Wilson), a schoolgirl who has a romance with a chemistry student (Douglass Montgomery) in a nearby college. She becomes pregnant. As soon as she reveals this fact to her classmates and teachers, Christa loses her position as stroke of the school crew but becomes such a celebrity among her classmates that she scarcely minds her demotion. Her father (Walter Connolly) is angry but her headmistress and swimming teacher (Kay Johnson...
...Where are some dancers important enough to board trolleys with pregnant women...
Soviet Russians like their dancers to be athletes, tireless as machines. Tatiana Vecheslova and Vachtang Chabukani, so important in Leningrad that they are permitted to get on the front end of street cars along with pregnant women, had come to the U. S. as the Soviet's first artistic delegation...