Word: seem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoughts full force to peace. Having written his will while maintaining a spuriously cheerful radio contact with his base camp lest men be lost hurrying to his rescue before the polar sun came up, the slight Virginian noted in his diary: "The distance and detachment of this place seem to soften human follies. Others take on added significance. But from here the great folly of all follies is the amazing attitude of civilized nations toward each other. It seems a great madness. If this attitude is not changed, I don't see how our civilization, as we know...
...Murry, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster; went on to commercial success and the most promising writer of them all, herself. Her first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), a conventional, competent piece, was well received in spite of the War. The pages of her second (Night and Day) now seem browned at the edges. In 1921 she cut loose from convention, published a book of sketches (Monday or Tuesday) written in an experimental associative-train-of-thought style which in the next ten years she developed into full flower. With Jacob's Room (1922), she captured the critics, began...
...Eternal Mask" is a study of insanity, and although it would seem to an ignorant spectator that the psychology might be questioned, the drama of the thing is tremendously absorbing. The core of the film is a series of imaginary scenes depicting the wanderings of a man within his own mind. A young doctor is refused permission by his superior to try out a serum he has developed on a hopeless meningitis patient, although the young man is convinced that it is infallibly salutary. So he goes ahead and tries it anyway, and the man dies. Death was the result...
...ultimate eighth of an inch of John Doe's hammer throw or broad jump is to be entered in the records at all," says Dr. Kirkpatrick. "it would seem sensible to try to get it down correctly. ... In all cases where adequate data are at hand the method of redress is by simple arithmetic, in conjunction with two or three venerable formulas. . . . The labors of Newton and Copernicus have been complete for some time now, but news sometimes seems to travel slowly in precisely those quarters where it is significant...
...Borzage its most eminent director. Whether the current version of the story will have the same effect remains highly dubious. Contemporary cinematic fashion calls for overdressed sentimentality masquerading as sophistication. Seventh Heaven's strongest quality is sophisticated simplicity which, for the naive, may make its fragile little story seem even more sentimental than it is. Nonetheless, despite flaws in Henry King's direction and in Melville Baker's dialog when it occurred to them that the picture needed purple patches, Seventh Heaven retains most of its original persuasiveness. Even the alarming contrast between Simone Simon...