Word: seem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passed around among school headmasters for sometime, Plan C has so far failed to rouse enthusiasm from more than a third. They claim that if released from the "anchor" of College Boards, the student's natural lust for leisure might win out. But the advantages to the student would seem to outweigh these objections. Once over with the red-devils of College Boards, he will have one year to break away from the repetition of French verb forms and reach out into the rich literature of the language. His preparation for college might consist, not of learning dates in American...
...common, on the average, under poor social conditions as it is under good social conditions; in the poorest places ... it may be nearly ten times as common as in a good environment, nearly a quarter of the child population being affected. Climate, housing, and the mixing of children seem to have little effect...
During one of those shortages of cash that seem to be chronic in the planned economy, Moscow sends Comrades Bul-janoff, Iranoff and Kopalski to Paris to sell confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful...
Though A Sea Island Lady never in any direction exceeds what its audience can take, it rarely eases up short of that. Within those limits it is extraordinarily warm, full, and actual, and by bulk alone gathers an enormous and serene momentum that ends by making the story seem as real and immediate as air. To the proper reader, Emily Fenwick becomes a useful magic mirror for solace, nostalgia, future-gazing, and self-comparison...
Bakst, in one respect, is an abstract artist. His color and lie are symbolic and seem to be the natural concomitants of musical and terpsichorean expression. But even without the intended accompaniment of the musician and the dancer, his designs and paintings are of great intrinsic value. it is interesting to think of Bakst in the light of his co-workers, men such as Picasso and Derain, for it was Bakst who supervised the artistic endeavors of these men while they were connected with the "Ballet Russe"; and it was about this time that Stravinsky, at the request of Diaghilev...