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...common nostalgic felicity. It persists in a time and among men who conscientiously harbor cynicism. It is, in short, an inescapable adjunct to discipleship. It is not, however, an inescapable adjunct to professorship. Every teacher, it is true, receives some small portion--his due as an officer, as an adult. But to very few is it given in full measure. And to these few is applied an adjective as hackneyed in its ordinary use as it is intense here. They are "great" teachers...
...respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into the group of quick, journalistically written thumbnail biographies which Warners have made their specialty for the last two years. Smart dialog by Manuel Seff and Niven Busch help make it adult entertainment...
...simple decorum of their pleasures. In July 14 Director Clair's chief advance is in further developing and expressing the characters of that small troupe of actors that he has slowly assembled for their humane spontaneity. There is beautiful lively Annabella, half ingénue, half adult, whom he found for Le Million. There is stubborn-mouthed, idealistic Georges Rigaud and Raymond Cordy with the sliding, friendly black eyes, the temper that all his huge patience cannot control, hero of A Nous La Liberté. There is beautiful, sluttish Pola Illery. There is aristocratic Paul Olivier who plays...
...Morgan submitted successive generations of Drosophila eggs to variations of temperature, light, x-rays, and other physical conditions. Each condition had some very definite effects which appeared in the adult...
...Heifetz, makes a full-tone slur downward from the fifth "D" above middle "C" in one-fiftieth of a second. It makes four of these notes, separated by infinitesimal pauses, at each stroke of its bow. The cricket's stridor is a love song, produced only by the adult male. When the bemused female approaches he tones down his serenade, strokes her with lustful antennae...