Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best British films, in short, have been very good, but they have been almost exclusively concerned with revealing English life and virtue. When they have strayed from familiar surroundings they have been occasionally successful as in 'Great Expectations," but more often they have not as witness "Cacsar and Cleopatra" "Men of Two Worlds," or the current "Beware of Pity." The same indictment cannot be applied to the fine picture that now and then rears up out of Hollywood's commercial quicksand. "The Informer," "Emile Zola," "Ninotchke," or "The Good Earth," support this view. American film makers have many times examined...
...programs will consist of short non-technical talks followed, when weather permits, by telescopic observations of celestial objects...
...After a short season at the end of the spring term, inter-House debating will gather momentum during the coming year, with an 18-debate schedule now definitely planned...
...magazine has not been entirely successful in its endeavor, it makes entertaining reading that is at least free from the adolescent eccentricities of Radditudes. The forum, consisting of a few letters on the extent of political consciousness around here, does not come through with any concrete ideas; but a short article on the state of modern drama, the subject of next month's forum, is provocative as well as clearly written. The other non-literary feature, two letters from German students, does well in keeping the general "for students and by students" flavor of the magazine...
...field yesterday, tiger-tamer Dick Harlow and his fellow coaches were stymied by the ever-present hour exams. Only about half of the projected starting even got out to the tenth-hour drill, and practice was cut short at 5"15 o'clock...