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...play. When he sets David to orating on the Futility and Superficiality of the present he unfortunately fails to be convincing, or even amusing. Cocktails and smart talk might be thoroughly evil, but David is merely trite on the subject. Aside from this, there is only one major fault in the play, and that is a very flat end. The discovery of the police delivered in a long and dull exposition by officer Cuff and the final acceptance of the verdict whatever it might be is an anticlimax and a considerable let down from the highly dramatic moment just preceding...

Author: By H. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

...have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that exist or other such important philosophical problems. These discussions are usually worried along by laymen whose only qualification lies in a facile verbosity. This is not entirely the section man's fault for Philosophy A offers a moderately lucrative training ground while he is studying for a Ph.D., his primary object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

...right for a man to resist being made into a machine. . . . If a machine be regarded as labor saving, instead of as labor serving, it may become a menace. The fault is not, however, in the machine but in the managers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ford Is Mohammed! | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...chief fault lay in what may be inaccurately called the drama. The story took hero (John Wayne) and heroine (Marguerite Churchill) through badly motivated antagonisms past conventionally villainous perils and into each other's arms at last. Their trip was sometimes complicated by high flown dialog and stimulated by snatches of good comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...chronic fault in the opening tilts was the defense, which, except for one occasion in the first game when Vermont was held for four downs on the one yard line, was spotty to say the least. The pass defense, too, was ragged despite the fact that the majority of the opponents' completed tosses were flat ones for short gains only. The majority of the practice sessions this week will be devoted to defensive scrimmage's with the Freshmen furnishing the offensive opposition in most of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SHOWS IT HAS POTENTIALITIES IN DOUBLE VICTORY | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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