Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent that college undergraduates can be consider representative of the entire country, the recent Student Opinion Surveys indicate that the American political scene of the future will be altered. These polls imply that at least two of the foremost standard political arguments of the nation--the Communist bogey and isolation--will not be very effective ammunition for the politician of tomorrow...
This is the first time that Harvard has been the scene of an organized labor conference although proceedings will be open not only to union members, but to all teachers and "all interested in the problems of teachers...
...instructions (I-III) to Laertes (Wesley Addy)--who is excellent in his humorous indifference to his father's preaching, but none the less convincing in his pursuit of revenge--Polonius is at once sage and verbose. To Ophelia (Katherine Locke),--who is appropriately fragile, and who contributes a mad scene (IV-V) as effective as any in the play--the Lord Chamberlain is exasperatingly hasty and foolish. Humor, too, enters into Mr. Graham's skillful portrayal, especially when the utmost is wrung from his interview (II-II) with the smooth, villainous King (Henry Edwards) and the sensual, light-witted Queen...
...South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected by a chauffeur with club and revolver, the authors distributed black bread to starving peasants, some of whom had not tasted bread in seven years. Best photograph: A Slovakian goosegirl, ganders and geese against a background of rolling, lawnlike fields, mountains, summer clouds...
...expedition to the West. Courageous, spirited, good-humored and humorless, he seems in Allan Nevins' big (649-page), definitive biography to have been somehow distracted-like an actor who pulls the trigger but the pistol does not go off, or like a leading man who launches his great scene before the curtain rises...