Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watercolors of Kari Zerbe, whose works have been admitted in this country only at the Marie Sterner Galleries in New York, will be on view at the Germanic Museum until November 4. Zerbe's work is well-known in Germany because of its delicate color and lightness of touch...
This simple skeleton is built into a fine novel by Miss Suckow's rich direct, and maturely sympathetic style. Her prose is at times radiantly beautiful and wise, "He was aware of a sense of change pervading everything, although it wasn't a thing he could touch or locate. He couldn't say how or when it had happened, but the old simple surety seemed to be gone. The church of his fathers was empty. There was something beyond him, some force that he was only blindly aware of working steathily and bringing a right-about-face. His own children...
...think that psychology should be treated as a science by itself," the world-famous psychologist declared, "Almost no other science is in natural touch with so many other neighboring fields. This contact is rather to be sought for than avoided, because the field of psychology would naturally receive so much aid from other sciences by such contact...
Psychologists should work in close touch with men in the other fields of science rather than conduct their own experiments without regard for the unity of the whole scientific field, according to Wolfgang Koehler, professor of Philosophy and Director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Berlin who is here this year as the William James Lecturer in Psychology and Philosophy...
...agile foot of Fred Astaire and the pleasing personality of Ginger Rogers lead the way in Hollywood's excellent adaptation of the New York stage show. In line with their usual incomprehensible actions, the movie moguls decided to add the personal touch to the film's title, and so "Gay Divorce" became "The Gay Divorcee." But since this is the only evident whimsy of those much-berated entrepreneurs, the film turns out to be a gay, fast-moving, and really humorous show, which is far and above the ordinary musical comedy film...