Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Criticism has forms that run the gamut from a brickbat to a disapproving silence, but criticism as a profession is not crowded with leaders. Thoughtful U. S. citizens, dazed by the soundless flicker of statistics, deafened by the screams of professional iconoclasts, lulled by the thin whisper of unco-highbrows, should be grateful for the reassuringly human voice of Critic Van Wyck Brooks. He is known by the minority that reads him as a sound, tonic, unacademic observer whose interest in the tall trees of literary criticism has not blinded him to the more important U. S. forest. These Three...
...importance of the Weirton controversy is obvious, and organized labor was not slow to point it out. If each violation must run the gamut of courts and appeals, the job is not going to be done with the expedition that employed and unemployed labor are demanding; the first labor delegation said flatly that if this was the best that the government could do, it should stop pretending and remove its ban on a protest strike. The delegation did not suggest any other action by the Labor Board, for the very good reason that no other action is feasible. An administrative...
This modern miracle play is the conversion of a sensitive middle-aged man John Loving, back to the Catholic form of Christianity through a perfect marriage. John is one of the "modern temper" group of twentieth century intellectuals who has run the gamut of atheism, socialism, and Bolshevism. That love and marriage had been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly...
...Such Pleasures (adapted from Dorothy Parker's book and her Laments for the Living by Edward F. Gardner; A. L. Jones, producer). During an intermission of The Lake, Dorothy Parker remarked to others in her party: "Well, let's go back and see Katharine Hepburn run the gamut of human emotion from A to B." This cruel mot epitomizes the spirit of After Such Pleasures, a categorical drubbing of womanhood and all its works from...
...Belinda nearly fell a prey to the importunity of a suitor, at the last minute saved her virtue when she remembered she had darned her green chemise with pink thread. In Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta a serious-minded, Ruskin-loving girl runs the gamut of arty life, ends as the wedded wife of a Victorian-lover. Cupid's Changeling, or The Lady's Mistake recounts the comic error of a lady novelist who took a stranger to her bed, thinking he was a famed cinemactor...