Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong tendency for a minor dean to indulge in the game of passing the buck, and, instead of dealing evenly and directly with all his students, to shift the onus of making difficult decisions over to other people, perhaps to that mysterious body known as the Administrative Board. In view of the fact that much of a dean's effectiveness depends on the position of respect or disrespect in which the undergraduates hold him, it might be well to give the lesser officials in University Hall a little more authority in routine matters...
...hockey games and other amusements to take their minds off the troubles of the business day. I speak not of them. I do, however, raise a meek voice for my shipmates and myself, who, when eight bells go and our long watches are over have nothing but a monotonous view of sky and water to greet our eyes. Day after day and night after night we come below to our rooms or to fo'c'sles bare and uninviting. Were it not for the books and magazines placed aboard by the American Merchant Marine Library Association we would...
Opened this week at Manhattan's Walker Galleries was the first U. S. exhibition of John Skeaping's animal drawings. In almost all these the focus of Skeaping's interest is the interplay of muscle and shadow. On view were an infuriated elephant, with eyes bulging out of its head; grave, long-fingered, acrobatic monkeys; a Dartmoor pony standing in ferns that look like fossil prints; an old Zebu bull with mountainous shoulders; a leopard which is almost pure draftsmanship without substance. A formalized antelope reminded visitors of the wall drawings of Cro-Magnon cave...
...Niles (Adolphe Menjou), does Esther encounter her hero in the flesh. By this time, like the rest of Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles and his glowering pressagent (Lionel Stander), they are definitely the former...
...precisely this point of view as contrasted with Norman Maine's own evaluation of his decline and its effect on his wife that gives the latter portion of A Star Is Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best...