Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gwenn support Montgomery superably, and amazingly enough there is hardly a woman's face in the entire 87 minutes of running time. This is no epic such as "The Grapes of Wrath," but in its unpretentious way it is well worth seeing. It'll give you an entirely new slant on the Hollywood vs. Foreign-made picture debate...
...Guild could have searched long & hard before it found a new president more like Founder Broun. Not physically (a far cry from Broun's genial, hulking mass is six-foot, solid, tweedy Kenneth Crawford) but temperamentally: like Broun, his mind is on the masses, his eyes slant to the Left. One measure of his personal leaning toward Marxism is his book The Pressure Boys, about lobbyists (with many a side crack at publishers and advertisers). In his last sentence, summarizing his beliefs, Crawford writes: "No great progress can be made until the hard-pressed middle classes learn that their...
...Male Animal serves up its bit of plot successively as roast turkey, creamed turkey, turkey hash, scraps, soup, and bones for the dog. Fortunately, Play wright Thurber's insane, melancholy slant on life fills the play with fresh and free-flowing laughter. Frustration is leavened into nonsense, indignation is alkalized by good nature. Admirably cast and directed by Producer Shumlin, The Male Animal is a gay evening in the theatre in spite of being no play...
...vital to most undergraduates as their own courses. Other groups like the Student Union of Phillips Brooks, which have partly concerned themselves with education, should enlarge their activities towards this end even further. From the Boylston Chemical Society to the Council of Government Concentrators each has its own slant, each should add its energy is the discussion. With the lively interest of the student body and the mature cooperation of the Faculty, the Committee's report should be in the hands of a sympathetic and forward-looking jury...