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...likely to spend the night so whimsically, to lose each other so casually in the subway, to find each other if they did, or to run into quite so picturesque a combination of gruffly kind metropolitan types. The trouble is more detailed than that. The pretty-enough "background music" (one of Hollywood's worst habits) reduces some of the storytelling from the sadly tender grandeur which the players and the monumental closeups earn to a sort of oversweetened, high-grade M. G. Mush...
Into that Platz, then into others, and finally into the vast wreckage of Unter den Linden came tanks and guns. Katusha rockets screeched over the Brandenburger Tor. Then, against a background of flames, the Red banner of victory was unfurled over the gutted Reichstag building. But, even after the ten-day battle was won, Germans died hard...
Each phase of teaching will begin with actual problems, then work back into theory, generalizations, background. Colgate is aware that its new plan will require "dynamic materials." (Samples: a course in economics may begin with a visit to the New York Stock Exchange; a course in public affairs with attendance at New York State Legislature sessions in Albany.) The faculty will also maintain an intensive preceptorial system to give personal help on the side. To make up for the high percentage (two-fifths) of class hours which the Core will absorb, Colgate will encourage its applicants to come fully prepared...
Lightened by slap-stick, by shrewd characterizations in the vitriol of Sinclair Lewis, and by its background lampoon, "Over Twenty-One" is familiar war-time humor. It trips gaily and successfully along on the assumption that there's something to be laughed at anywhere, even--or especially--in a jumble of newspapers, Hollywood plays, Army manuals, bugle calls, and very confused people...
First, there must be background for the girl. She must not be too guilty; yet she must not have been "framed." In an effort to find the happy medium between innocence and culpability, the movie's writers have evolved a self-defense manslaughter charge that a third-rate Yale law student could break down in ten minutes, with the result that for the rest of the film one can think only that the entire procedure is unnecessary...