Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sanely regarded, it seems that Harvard indifferences is nothing more than New England individualism, whereby each leaves the other to his business, which he expects is much like his own. Because of this self-reliant way of pursuing education, Harvard does not believe in football rallies or Junior proms. Yet when the need arises, it can organize into a peace demonstration, riot, or Class Day parade...
...Lucky Star (Twentieth Century-Fox) provides happy, healthy Sonja Henie, whose previous cinema roles have differed only in the hairline shadings of her skating routines, with a new medium of self-expression: clothes. Functioning as an employe of a Manhattan department store, she is sent to Plymouth University on a semiprofessional basis as a mannequin to promote the sales of winter sportswear. This device supplies most of the story motivation in My Lucky Star, since the Henie wardrobe arouses the jealousy of her less fortunate classmates. It also permits Miss Henie to model a collection of cold-weather creations which...
...insist that the most abstract of studies be grounded in reality. His chief practical interest is the study of aeronautics, and last week at the semicentennial meeting of the American Mathematical Society he said: "It is a falsification of the history of mathematics to represent pure mathematics as a self-contained science drawing inspiration from itself alone and morally taking in its own washing." He then plunged eagerly into a discussion of his favorite field, harmonic analysis...
Despite the inevitable self-consciousness of this buildup, Baltimore's union men and their families found plenty to look at and plenty to like in the museum's galleries. Most of the 106 items of painting and sculpture were by good contemporaries, though two of the best were Millet's Woman with a Rake, lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Monet's Les Déchargeurs de Carbon. The artists ranged from such ununionized souls as Academician Jonas Lie and Merrymaker Doris Lee to Proletarians Joe Jones and Mervin Jules. The subject matter...
Author Stone, himself a smart and self-confident young man, admires the youthful London and all his works for reasons that appear a bit superficial. As critics pointed out when Sailor on Horseback was serialized, some of its best passages are lifted from London's autobiography (John Barleycorn) with a mere transposition of pronouns from...