Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually Miss Baker has been very much subordinated by the cynical theme of the film. Though never oppressive, the picture paints a striking contrast between the wholesome stupidity and naive sensuality of Africa and the futile artifice of Europe with its snobbishness, adultery, and puerile attempts to understand eternal secrets. The skillful direction of Edmond Greville and a finished performance by the veteran Albert Prejean put this across. M. Benoit, at the cameras, deserves great credit, as much for shots of delicate irony as for scencs of beauty and simplicity. English subtitles make this rare film available to everyone...
...hard for outsiders to understand fully the idealism and honor that exists among the cadets. This is fact, not dramatization. That West Point graduates officers and gentlemen without exception is a result of the code existing there...
...Butler of Columbia University, signalized the occasion by announcing to the U. S.: "Step by step, during this 20-year period, Estonia has moved forward toward stronger and more clearly defined democratic institutions. [Estonians are] building their nation upon principles which the people of the United States so fully understand and heartily applaud...
...Each apprentice teacher should be supervised only by such men as have had actual teaching experience in his field or in one closely related to it. A supervisor experienced in the teaching of the social studies can not be expected to understand all the problems of a language teacher...
Mathematician Edward Kasner, 59, of Columbia University, is one of the mythical baker's dozen of savants who were supposed to be the only men in the world able to understand the Einstein theory of relativity. At Harvard's Tercentenary celebration in 1936, he showed how to bisect a "horn angle" (an angle formed by two curves tangent to each other), a problem which had stumped mathematicians for 2,000-odd years. His fun: talking to children...