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...regarded it as such when they billed a film at reserved prices. Today that practice is being abused regularly, so that every fifth production is dressed out as great and sold to the public at $2.20 a seat. But in the past, in the dim beginnings of the movie technic (this is a safer term than art), a picture did not have to be seen at enormous prices to be great. Of course, one like "The Big Parade" drew multitudes to the old Astor Theatre at a price dear even to the pocket of a retired banker. In recent years...
Since Harvard is a University, it must, through diligent research, contribute its share of knowledge to the world. It must train its graduate students to master the technic of productive scholarship, and to pursue relentlessly the elusive Goddess of truth, but in so doing it must not forget that its primary purpose is the development of the art of teaching...
...blades from special alloys to the study of actual shaving conditions by means of a shaving "clinic," organized among the Fellows of Mellon Institute. The findings are soon to be published in full. . . . According to these results the shaving problems of different individuals vary in character, but correct technics benefit all shavers. These include the taking of sufficient time for facial preparation before shaving (two minutes is the minimum time . . . ); shaving with a slanting stroke as far as possible; mixing of a little soap with latherless cream if the latter is the medium preferred by the shaver; shaving with...
...compulsory health insurance, another thanking President Roosevelt for his letter of greeting. Convivial caretakers of the nation's teeth roamed the French quarter, munched pralines, had Sazerac cocktails and crepes suzette for dinner. There was not much public oratory and reporters looking for details on such matters as "Technic for Drawing Malposed Cuspid into Proper Occlusion" were frequently stopped at the doors with the explanation that scientific secrecy must be preserved. But as some 4,000 members of the American Dental Association met in New Orleans last week it was no secret that a low opinion was prevalent...
...Lincoln Kirstein needed more time to perfect their dream of a perfect ballet. Undistinguished dancers can frolic in a burlesque like Alma Mater. But earlier in the same evening a more conventional and exacting Mozartiana made it apparent that a year is not long enough to build up a technic comparable to that of the long-trained Russians...