Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opens up new worlds: the regions he explores were previously unknown to literature. And he creates Upheaval." With these words Mr. Julius Meief-Graefe commences the latest biography of one of the great trilogy of Russian writers, perhaps even, if one may attempt to set foot upon the odious road of comparisons, the greatest of the group which put a new literature before the world: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev. Tolstoy and Turgenev painted upon what might be called a variation of the Western canvas, with new colors; Dostoevsky created a new easel and a new technique. It is the difference between...
Here is a realistic reel. The hobo types might easily have been friends of onetime-hobo Tully on the road. Wallace Beery,* who can put more lasciviousness into the simultaneous lifting of eyebrow and stroking of whiskers than most cinemactors can in 500 feet of ponderous leering, has been permitted to graduate from the oaf class into the wider world of characterization. Louise Brooks, as usual, is decorative, never decorous. Richard Arlen does honestly the flaming-tempered youth...
...Economics of Education, graduate students are delving for the human equation beneath the never questioned fact that each year of formal education equals a step in a geometric progression of salary increases. The leader of the research, Dr. Clark, says confidently "We believe that we are on the road to finding a startling reversal of facts that will affect the whole economic foundation of education in this country...
...HIGH ROAD-The old one about the actress and the English Lord-with new jokes and a bitter ending (TIME, Sept...
Next Thursday, October 4. Owen Lattimore will give an illustrated lecture on "The Desert Road to Turkestan" in the Fogg Museum at 4.30 o'clock. This lecture is given under the Harvard Yen Ching Institute, and is open to members of the University...