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...only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles, like Laurence Olivier's Orlando, Leon Quartermaine's Jaques, were played in a more subdued key. To give the screen version a scope that no stage production can hope to match, he allowed Set Designer Lazare Meersom, whose work U. S. audiences have heretofore seen only in French pictures like Carnival in Flanders, a free hand. Brilliantly matched with the glittering poetry of the play are its rich backgrounds-huge dark trees...
...four and five rooms. Adhering to the Rockefeller tradition of philanthropy with a purpose, Mr. Junior planned not only to house disadvantaged Negroes but also to prove that it could be done on a sound business basis and thus to stimulate housing improvements in Harlem far beyond the scope of private philanthropy or public subsidy. He took a $2,000,000 mortgage on the Dunbar Apartments, receiving a 5% return on his investment. Fortnight ago Mr. Rockefeller started to foreclose his mortgage...
...regularly falling off, the women snarling at the children, cursing the men, slandering each other. Consequently, while A World I Never Made does not deepen or add perspective to James Farrell's picture of the life of Chicago's lower-class Irish population, it widens the scope of that picture, is a forceful, frank but repetitious documentation of an aspect of it omitted from Farrell's previous books...
...Harvard press can widen its scope, printing, naturally, works by members of the faculty, yet including subjects of broader interest than specialized research, it can have a very great part to play in maintaining that note of progressive liberality which Harvard so ably sounded at the Tercentenary. As edition of American classics, an anthology or even a Companion to American Verse would awaken interest immensely in both the American classics and the University press itself...
...departments is a paper set by the department concerned, general in the sense that it is taken by all candidates of that year, and comprehensive in the sense that it covers the entire field of honors study. This examination is usually attended by special examinations more limited in scope and is sometimes preceded by a preliminary examination (general but not necessarily comprehensive) at the end of Junior year. When the result of the written honors examination is in doubt, it may be followed and supplemented by an oral examination...