Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader it is written in an animated and vigorous style which is not without its humorous touches. If will be of especial interest to those who anticipate entrance into the profession but it has much to offer anybody interested in the development of man and his most vital institutions...
...Tragedies, dating from the First Folio and since universally adopted has been abandoned." they say, "in the belief that there were room and need for an edition that should enable readers to approach the body of the plays not as a state monument of achievement but as a vital and growing organism revealing the evolution of the poet's personality and genius...
...genuinely original comedies of the year, an up-to-date sporting print with bright colors and clear lines. Difficult to analyze and impossible to imitate, the hallmark of Director Capra's style is his way of turning what for an other director would be a commonplace "gag"' into a vital and important incident. In Broadway Bill, he makes a shot of the Higgins family lifting their soup spoons with terrifying regularity show exactly why Dan Brooks abhors their company. He makes a brilliant thumbnail caricature of Dan's amazing friend. Colonel Pettigrew, out of a sequence in which...
...never any danger that graduate opinions will not be heard, it is right that they should receive consideration. There is little objection to having former football players as graduate members of the Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports if the one-fourth representation is not exceeded. Yet the vital principle that Harvard exists for undergraduates and not for sentimental graduates is essential for the welfare of the University...
...institution which gives promise of remedying this lack of first-rate speakers is praiseworthy. The great merit of the experiment now being practiced at the Union is that it gives the speakers experience. The nature of the audience precludes the possibility of old, stock oratory. What is of vital importance in the early stages of such an experiment is that the topics be wisely chosen, with especial regard to their timeliness and general appeal. For this reason, the first subject, Resolved, That the New England States secede from the Union, is valueless, an utter waste of time to all concerned...