Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capra has not sacrificed entertainment for his "message." The cast is superb, headed by James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, and Edward Arnold. The Senate set is a perfect replica of the Washington chamber, but best of all are the shots taken in the Lincoln Memorial, the real thing this time...
...literary curiosity, Old Possum's cat book rates high. The verses, which show a perfect skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...
Spokesmen for the H.T.D.C. (Harvard Thanksgiving Day Committee) jubilantly interpreted this move on the University's part as a concession to their demands that every man in the University have perfect freedom in deciding which of the two disputed days he wishes to worship as his Thanksgiving...
...Puritans got off to a flying start as Bob Fulton scored in the first quarter on an end sweep behind perfect blocking from his teammates. Joe Peden kicked the extra point, and the situation looked bright for the visitors...
...remake society along socialistic lines." Said he to the grocery manufacturers, further defining his aims and his conception of acceptable Americans: ". . . The businessmen of this country must . . . say to the people of the country: 'We have a program, a program that is American, a program that is not perfect but at least will retain your liberty and your freedom if you follow it. . . ." When that leadership is assumed throughout the United States by our industrialists, our executives . . . we will have less of demagogues and racketeers [and] the damnable doctrines of Socialism and Communism...