Word: role
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Philosophy. Time was when listening to Herbert Hoover was a role for the intellectuals and the economists. In his devastating The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Economist John Maynard Keynes had harsh judgments to make on most of the public men of the post-War days. But of Herbert Hoover he wrote: "This complex personality . . . with his habitual air of an exhausted prizefighter . . . imported into the Councils of Paris . . . precisely that atmosphere of reality, knowledge, magnanimity and disinterestedness which, if they had been found in other quarters as well, would have given us the Good Peace...
...into a Don Ameche Cavaleade, the story of a brilliant but erratic director of the old silent days who bombasts his way through many years of happiness and stark tragedy, and in the end manages to get Alice Faye and some gray hairs. Miss Faye, surprisingly effective in a role with no lyrics, very little legs, and custard pies in the face, plays the part of a Broadway star who comes to Hollywood at the instigation of Ameche. Though she marries the wrong man first, he contrives to drive into a telegraph pole at the crucial movement, thus leaving...
Even if this paradox can be resolved, a basic confusion still remains: the confusion about the role of the Communist in a liberal coalition. The H.S.U. is avowedly an organization for the preservation of peace and the extension of democracy. In theory it embraces all those who subscribe to those broad aims. In practice, however, it averages in political thought somewhere to the left of New Dealism...
Siepmann has been connected with the British Broadcasting Corporation for twelve years, of which the first eight were spent in the Adult Education Department, and the past four in executive offices, Invited by President Conant to perform research on the role of radio in education, and financed by a private American organization not connected with Harvard or with the British Government, he "nearly fell over backwards" in eagerness to accept the offer...
Miss Barrymore refuses to let all this give anybody the creeps. Seldom offstage, and extremely vocal, blunt and racy when on, she plays her role with a huge gusto and humor that never degenerate into caricature. The same cannot be said of Playwright Langley's handling of his plot...