Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court this week handed the National Labor Relations Board its first serious setback in litigation, at the same time broadened its already vast powers over U. S. industry. In Consolidated Edison Co. of N. Y. v. NLRB, the Court ruled...
...York arrived a smuggled letter telling of the end of Spyros Vlachos, 29-year-old Greek correspondent. Last summer Reporter Vlachos had the rashness to telephone a dispatch to the New York Times declaring the Cretan revolt was "more serious than the governmental communiqués indicated." Arrested and blacklisted, he poisoned himself November 14 because he "could no longer stand the loss of liberty in his chosen profession...
...almost silly," Odets went on, "to have to be defending the theme of love for a play. Popular songs and motion pictures are occupied with practically nothing else. But in a serious play ... it apparently strikes some as not being enough; it doesn't 'count.' It isn't 'important.' . . . The roots of love and the meaning of it in the present world need surely to be comprehended as much as the effect of a strike on its activists. (In fact, I am hoping to prove in a future play, The Silent Partner, that love...
...career of Walt Disney has given many artists something new to think about. They like to think that movie animation is in its infancy, that Silly Symphonies are preludes to Serious Symphonies which will employ all the resources of painting wedded to music and cinemaction. The obstacle that many of them bleat about: no film company will back anything but popular entertainment. Last week in London an original artist named Len Lye, working on a shoestring, crashed through with an animated movie called Color Flight which previewers hailed as art, as entertainment, and as the freshest stuff of its kind...
...serious note in the affair was supplied by Miss Ethel T. Heller, chairman of the sponsoring committee, who made a stirring plea in behalf of Chinese democracy. Around her neck, Miss Heller wore a picture of herself taken at the age of three. She refused to have her picture taken again and furiously staved off the socially-conscious Harvard boys bent on mobbing the dressing room...