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...full-length portrait, done with all the emphasis on unity of time and place that is currently in fashion, Counsellor at Law shows its subject against a single background, the glittering onyx and aluminum offices of Simon & Tedesco (Onslow Stevens). Playwright Elmer Rice, who adapted his own successful play, surrounded his study of Lawyer Simon with sketches of his associates and friends. Old Mrs. Simon wobbles into her son's office at odd moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships...
...appreciate the seriousness of this issue it will be necessary to examine the peculiar background of the tutorial system in Harvard College. That Harvard began as a school for ministers is a fact which has larger implications than is commonly recognized. It meant that Harvard should follow the rigid course curriculum of the scholastic colleges of Europe, a curriculum which is admirably adapted to an educational process of a very special kind. That process is based on the assumption that there is one truth, moulding and informing all studies, and that it can be taught as a unified whole through...
...Light." Without mentioning Capitalism by name, Communist Litvinoff then turned his speech into a suave, polished, 100% Red enumeration of Capitalist failures and concluded with a dramatic understatement: "Against this gloomy background it is impossible, in my opinion, not to discern in all that is going on in my country a ray of light. ... I hope that ... I have not transgressed the limits permitted by my agreement with President Roosevelt regarding propaganda...
Though his heroes usually take the centre of the stage, Author Roeder fills in his scene with many a background high-spot : the death of Pope Alexander VI, whose corrupt old Borgia body mortified with such appalling swiftness that it had to be hammered into the coffin; Isabella d'Este, first lady of her time; Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder...
When the oaths had been taken the President turned his clear blue eyes upon the group. They passed over Mrs. Roosevelt; noted standing in the background the man who was his economic instructor at Harvard 30 years ago, Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, more recently adviser to the Bank of England; noted youngish Dean Acheson, retiring Undersecretary of the Treasury, tall, lean and dark; noted a couple of assistant secretaries, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, the Directress of the Mint, the Chief of the Secret Service, a member of the Federal Reserve Board; noted, also...