Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feels inclined to do, there would be empty classrooms on the day before and after each holiday. Professors, rather than waste their lectures, would agree not to hold classes that day; students would proceed to extend the vacation still farther, and the cycle would be followed out to absolute zero. Such a prospect demands that the line be drawn somewhere, and the authorities have drawn it in the logical place-at the beginning...
...Helen Menken in a thrilling melodrama of Paris. KIKI-Lenore Ulric still turning 'em away at the Belasco Theatre. The story of a little Paris grisette who wasn't half so bad as she painted herself. THE ADDING MACHINE - Expressionistic projection of an humble Babbitt called Mr. Zero. A satirical arraignment of bourgeois justice by Elmer Rice, who has performed the miracle of achieving the Theatre Guild by way of Broadway. You AND I-The Harvard Prize Play, by Philip J. Q. Barry, with the best balanced cast in town. Clever dialogue and shrewd observations of manners, morals...
...mistake nor the sin is even remotely referred to. And for a very good reason: the book is not a biography; it is a moral treatise. The moral is directed to all young men now entering business. " Look at Mr. Curtis," it says on every page. " He started with zero, he was honest, he found business to be a glorious adventure, he made a lot of money. You can do the same! Look at Mr. Curtis! He did it! " How, is never explained...
...ADDING MACHINE-Expressiomstic projection of an humble Babbitt called Mr. Zero. A satirical arraignment of bourgeois justice by Elmer Rice, who has graduated to the Theatre Guild from a successful Broadway novitiate...
...ADDING MACHINE?The utmost in expressionism. Mr. Zero kills his employer, is executed and looks over the hereafter. He finds heaven lacking in respectability. A fantastic study of a stunted soul...