Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant is, appropriately enough, the most vocal member of the Faculty on the war issue. Already he has talked to M.I.T. and to a nation-wide radio audience. Other interventionist professors are extremely active in the newspapers and magazines. But the intellectual current is running nearly all one way. The men from whom we learned non-intervention are not saying much. Perhaps they remember too well what happened to men like them who spoke out last time. Perhaps they feel it is not the part of a teacher to take a stand on this issue...
...Zanuck's semi-annual rummaging in the attic of U. S. culture, nostalgically evokes the howling vulgarities of the gilded era. This time the hourglass figure of Singer Lillian Russell serves as a prop on which to drape a long (two hours) and lavish account of her vocal triumphs and marital monotonies. For reasons which the picture never clears up, Alice Faye is cast as Lillian Russell. Queues of top-hatted gentlemen, roomfuls of roses, $15,000 trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity. When Husband No. 1 (Don Ameche) dies...
Feminine chuckles, a few scattered laughs, and now and then a rather intelligent remark, are combined in such a way as to form a vocal accompaniment to the thematic display of Pablo Picasso's paintings in the Boston Museum. Picasso is not, as one critic put it, an "enfant terrible"; he is a very fine artist who is intelligent enough to warrant being called the most original cclectic in the history...
stirred like a man trying not to wake from a pleasant dream. Isolationism grew more vocal than ever; Congress passed, tightened up, a Neutrality Act which abandoned the freedom of the seas...
...come. When Woody called upon the student body to join his Glee Club in a group of College songs, he met with a more than hearty response. Not since the first half of the Yale game has Harvard sung as it sang last night. Ragged, to be sure, its vocal efforts were yet relaxed, sincere; and just behind the beat...