Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gastronomic niceties for a bit. If one of our number is successful it may signify the beginning of an athletic renaissance. In any event, if doughnuts for breakfast have been substituted for hockey rinks we should not look the gift horse in the face. Appreciation and proper competitive spirit demand that a Cambridge man throw his hat into the doughnut ring...
...committee of which Herbert D. Tobin '35 is chairman and Sigmund Worner '36 secretary has been formed to organize a "Harvard Commuters' Association" designed "to stimulate the interest of the commuting students in cultural activities and college life, to promote a fraternal and intellectual spirit among the commuters, and to contribute to the welfare of the University...
...committee carefully stated, in an article written by Joseph D. Golden '37, one of its members, that "the spirit of this group will be one of intelligent and rational cooperation with the University toward a common goal, and will earnestly avoid any antagonistic attitude toward the College authorities...
...interesting chapter on "The Inferiority Complex in Art" Mr. Fry relates the modernist cult in the arts with the democratic spirit in politics. The lack of culture in the ruling mob he believes is one impetus to the success of modernistic art which panders to the naive mass of uncultured culture seekers. He believes that the phenomenon of this new art presents a problem for profound study by psychologists. "The deification of ugliness and obscenity, the urge for mutilation, deformation, muddy color and exaggeration, are all symptoms," he says, "of sadism, indicating a form of psychopathiasexualis...
...general, though, they stuck closely to the spirit of an original which has been widely, if not wisely, admired for its daring fantasy. The picture contains a scene in which Neptune uses his trident to frighten the patrons of a deluxe Manhattan swimming pool, an episode in which Bacchus finds modern whiskey so fiery it makes him belch, a passage in which Hebe discovers a container full of paper cups. Alan Mowbray plays the inventor with admirable presence of mind. Meg, the stone girl who becomes his accomplice when he converts her into flesh & blood, is Florine McKinney. Typical shot...