Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PEER GYNT-" Down the vast edges drear" of a hard-hearted world Ibsen leads his epic hero on the futile quest of the meaning of lite. Peer, the boaster, the seeker of self-realization and the victim of a relentless wanderlust, is played by Joseph Schildkraut. Lee Simonson's settings are eerily effective...
EBONY AND IVORY ? Llewellyn Powys ? American Library Service ($2.00). The dark continent is swept with a revealing glare of realism. The intensity of the picture is almost unbearable. Mr. Powys sees Africa as a place of creeping death, of relentless cruelty...
...University defence was strong, but it could not cope with the clashing, powerful, relentless attack shown by the Orange and Black, in which speedy individual play was combined with superb team-work and more accurate shooting than has been displayed by any team so far encountered by Coach Claflin's men. Easily the best team faced this year by the Crimson skaters, Princeton scored a well-earned victory...
Tonight at the Union the University steps from behind registration blanks, study cards and other impersonal but relentless emblems of officialdom to give a hearty welcome to its new members as Harvard men. Business hours are over the shutters are up, and the Class of 1926, after marching and counter-marching across the Yard in open order all day as individuals, can assemble and look itself in the face for the first time as a class, one of the largest in the history of the College...
...quoted as saying: "The way Western young folk go after belles-lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than the snow leopard, the wildcat and lynx, can escape them. As the professor says, they "go after belles-lettres," do the Western young folk, but an East...