Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt had lingered long and uncertainly over this third most important diplomatic appointment. He had chosen a quiet, scholarly North Carolina Protestant who could be counted on to keep his head amid Germany's racial uproar. The day of his appointment Dr. Dodd was digging in his Chicago flower garden when a newshawk asked him: "You talk German fluently?" "Yes," chuckled the professor, "that's what has got me into this trouble...
...handed or vulgar in the movies, it is a very different genre from what goes under the name on the stage. "Pleasure Cruise" goes some way towards being a happy resolution of the difference; it has the scenic and technical advantages of the photoplay, without losing the grace and quiet effectiveness of the legitimate type...
Princeton men did not feel they knew Dr. Dodds very well, just as Harvard men last month did not feel acquainted with their new President James Bryant Conant (TIME, May 15). Between the two there is further resemblance. Both are cool, shrewd, quiet, bespectacled. Dr. Dodds is the youngest Princeton president since Aaron Burr (32)* in 1748 and Samuel Davies (36) in 1759. No other Princeton president save Woodrow Wilson has been a non-clergyman, but Dr. Dodds, like Wilson, is the son of a Presbyterian minister. Born in Utica. Pa. he grew up in Grove City and took...
...Hudson's Green Mansions) are laid in a realistic setting no naturalist could carp at. Dr. Gion's scene is a modern town, presumably German; its characters do not pretend to be anything but flesh & blood, but its effect is definitely fairy-taleish. A quiet book, of oldfashioned, deferential sentiment and gentle resignation, it should appeal to readers who want a change from "real life...
...even so challenging a publication as the New Republic must rely largely upon endowment for its support. Polity is less sensational, farther removed from the meretricious mens Americans which finds its nourishment in such journals as the successful Time and leaves the American Mercury to slide into the quiet tenor of bankruptcy. Perhaps Polity can afford the limitation on popularity which its mild and legal tone must impose. It has, at any rate, begun bravely, and were its book reviews to be elevated to the high level of its featured articles, it would have earned an even clearer title...