Word: stilles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Much more of this life is skim milk or spilt milk than cream. It is a chronicle of vanishing dreams and growing regrets, of crotchets and quirks, affection and annoyance, gossip and eavesdropping, small skeletons in large closets. It fails to be drab because, at 70, its people are still kicking their heels, raising their voices, cocking their ears. They talk ridiculous bromides, but with passion ; they make absurd gestures, but with feeling. They are for the most part real, and for the most part funny...
...Largo tells of King McCloud (well played by Muni), who deserts the Spanish Loyalists when he sees their cause "betrayed" and doomed, and his own patrol about to be annihilated. To him this is riot cowardice, but the common sense of disillusionment; to his companions it still seems better to die for an ideal than live without one. Afterwards, though still believing he was right, King is burdened with a sense of guilt. The play does not, however (after the fashion of Conrad's Lord Jim), trace out the psychological consequences of King's desertion; instead, it brings...
...Lucius Gesell of Yale's famed Clinic of Child Development, writing in Scientific Monthly for December, gave Darwin credit for these experiments, because, in trying to bolster up his theory of man's lowly origin, Darwin gave a tremendous push to the infant science of infant behavior. Still a source book for child psychologists is Darwin's A Biographic Sketch of an Infant, published...
Small, round-faced Dr. Louis Wirth, University of Chicago sociologist, declared that urbanism-the big city problem-enters into almost every major problem of modern society. "Our cultures are still many, but our civilization is one. The city is the symbol of that civilization. We will either master this ominously complicated entity or perish under...
...were seen," reported Dr. Carroll, "except for a slight nausea." About the future of the drug, which is not yet on the market, he hazarded no comment. Last week sulfamethylthiazol was tried on two Staphylococcus victims in a Midwest hospital, and on one in Manhattan, with hopeful results. But still restrained is the cautious enthusiasm of physicians, who cannot commit themselves on the drug until it has been tried on many more patients...