Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Digging into the fat tome, which in English runs to 344 pages, scholars noted that it falls into four sections. The first, comprising more than half the book, rehearses the whole of German-Polish relations, 1919-39, to depict "The Fight Against the Germans in Poland and Against Danzig and Germany's Attempts Under National Socialism to Reach an Understanding with Poland." This is largely made up of reports by German diplomats and consuls in Poland of "injustices" and "atrocities" suffered by expatriate Germans at the hands of Poles. The short second section, "The British War Policy," accusingly produces...
...instance, John Brown, the faithful Scotsman, as played by James Gibson, not only helps to depict a new development in Victoria's character, but also emerges as a man whose wisdom is sprung from many years of contact with the soil. If Ernest Clark, moreover, as Albert's brother, Ernest, was not so completely a provincial German prig, Werner Bateman's portrayal of Albert would lack the all-important sympathy of the audience. Disraeli, Lord Conyngham, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Melbourne, and the gay Lady Jane are some of those who have their brief but impressive moments...
...York Herald Tribune's eighth annual Forum on Current Problems. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn (Little Women, Little Minister, Alice Adams, Mary of Scotland, Quality Street), attacked the cinema industry for its ostrich attitude: ". . . Let a movie try to depict situations in which we are all involved now; let a movie try to wake people up to their own plight . . . ; let a movie try to present a moral, economic or political problem of today honestly and simply, and they are advised to hear nothing, say nothing, do nothing...
...Girls On Probation" definitely does not live up to its advertisements, which depict a girl of decidedly sensuous cast smoking a cigarette in the approved seductive manner. It is a routine tale of woe, in which the heroine is framed by endless coincidences...
...scenes and events. In his symphonic poem, Don Quixote, he made the brass instruments of the orchestra bleat like sheep. In his later Symphonia Domestica, an enormous orchestra of 108 players was set to work imitating the sound of a baby in a bathtub. He boasted that he could depict anything in music recognizably, even a glass of water. Critics deplored his vulgarity, but they had to admit that Composer Strauss was one of the most gifted orchestrators in the history of orchestral music...