Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work contains visits to psycho-pathic clinics, and laboratory work in which various experiments are made; most social ethics courses include visits, to reformatories, almshouses, and other institutions. Students in these courses find most interest in the practical side of their work. In view of this fact, it would seem that an extension of concrete treatment in these fields, and in certain of the social sciences may be a natural and desirable result...
...life. A smile serves as a guidepost at a turning point for a man who is hesitating at the intersection of two paths. A smile is the sun that dissipates the clouds of despair. It is just the ray of light that many a soul needs to make life seem preferable to death. It is the cheapest and most valuable gift we can make. When smiles can do so much, why are we not more liberal with them...
...Civic Repertory, has entrusted the piece to Director Egon Brecher, a quizzical associate of long standing. He handles play and players in the Tony Sarg manner. The entire cast jerk and jostle through the gleeful evening like life-sized marionettes, with a giddy promptness that makes it seem as though all were improvised. Miss LeGallienne is paradoxically absent from the cast; Mr. Brecher, providentially, present. Storm Center is an inconsequential little farce about a married couple who buy a house in the country. The first act exhibits the difficulties of packing up and moving out. The second act exhibits...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
Peaks of Destiny. So enormous are the powdered peaks of the Alps, so wild and casual the winds that sweep between them that the actions of people must seem in comparison fragile and inconsequent, even unreal. The people in this picture are mainly three; Diotina, a dancer, whose amorous flippancies stir her fiance to jealousy as they stir his young friend to devotion. The fiance traps his friend on a high and dangerous ledge; then, at the instant of carrying out his plan, he regrets it and clings to a rope through a night of storm until men arrive...