Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able pianist as well as a violinist, Fritz Kreisler is also widely known for his compositions, chief among them a sheaf of ingratiating light violin pieces (Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois, etc.) which are played by all of today's important fiddlers. In 1902 he married a U. S. woman, Harriet Lies, daughter of Tobacco Merchant George P. Lies. Violinist Kreisler has a belief that if one has practiced well in youth, the fingers should hold their suppleness in later years. Says Wife Harriet: "He would be a better violinist if he practiced more...
...spring by MGM. In Len Lye's new and slicker film, the hot music not only is heard but appears as a complex, fast-changing pattern of brightly or subtly colored shapes. Simultaneous with the trumpet notes of Red Nichols' solo a vertical ribbon of cold green light vibrates on the screen, sways against a violet background. Drum beats appear as expanding dark blobs and are wiped away. A piano solo sprinkles the screen with mercurial, pearly beads...
...Schindler gastroscope is over two feet long. The upper half of the tube is steel and connects with the lower half which is rubber lined with a metal coil. At the lower end there is a flexible guide to ease the tube's passage, a small light and a prism which protrude on one side. Inside the tube, one above the other, are set more than 40 lenses. No matter which way the tube is bent within the patient, the lenses diffract the image at the bottom of the tube so that the physician has a clear view...
Touchiest subjects are political disputes, but most clubs have approved forthright political studies like Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's enlightening Inside Europe. Club programs show that much emphasis is placed on light romances. But in the last two years almost every important club in the U. S. has endorsed Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, which most U. S. critics would place near the top in any list of U. S. post-War works of literature...
...most important aspect of this questionnaire, and the thing that in the light of the pre-election foolishness will be hardest to prove to the student body, is that the Cambridge police stand ready to help them at all times. A few patrolmen, it is true, may enjoy baiting the students, but the majority of the force respect students as much as any other group of residents. Statements from Headquarters officials vouch for this attitude. The attitude at Headquarters is one of cooperation and assistance that should not be spurned by the University. If the prompt action taken...