Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flaunting an impressive sheaf of endorsements by high government officials, the Committee for Latin-American scholarships has returned to the limelight. Since Secretary of State Hull has labeled its scheme "a great idea" and promised "the full cooperation of the State Department," Harvard must recognize the group's serious intent--therefore proceed to an objective consideration of the plan...
...telepathy and clairvoyance. Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University believes that his card-guessing experiments (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934) prove the existence of ESP. The various criticisms aimed at him boil down to the charge that he has not maintained the rigorous objectivity and experimental control demanded of serious research...
...world-famed Reichsführers. Put as blithely as Shaw puts it, it is a cheering idea. The trouble is that, while it makes The Gentle People a likable fable, it makes it an absurd play. Humorous mood and melodramatic plot refuse to jell. Murder is usually a fairly serious business, and murder conceived and carried out by two good-natured fishermen should be fairly agonizing. Instead it becomes a piece of hanky-panky, awkward, grotesque, unreal...
...East, the Middle West and the Southwest, settling like flocks of gulls on Florida's sands. By the meet's end most of the stragglers had joined the first 325. Of the rest, forced down en route by weather, low fuel or motor trouble, none suffered serious mishap...
...Dorothy Parker nervously swore off humor: "I don't see how you can help being unhappy now. The humorist has never been happy, anyhow. Today he's whistling past worse graveyards to worse tunes. . . . If you had seen what I saw in Spain, you'd be serious too. And you'd be up on this piano, trying to help those people...