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...first resisting, finally adopting modern agricultural methods in their work. Like all contemporary Russian cinemas, it is dishonest. The victory is won too easily; better times break out like sunlight at the touch of Soviet educators, while the real, secret, breath-taking drama now going on in Russia?the test of a government which has by no means proved its ability to keep faith with its policies?is suppressed. But Old and New is interesting in spite of what it leaves out. It is wonderfully photographed in the flat, wheat-colored daylight of the steppes. Into a poverty in which...
...office. And even the most rabid admirer of the general theatre-going public will hardly credit it with the same level of intelligence as a Harvard audience. The result of this state of affairs is that there are many plays which would not pass the pragmatic test of filling a New York theatre with Broadway Babbits and yet are worthy of the Dramatic Club's attention. And anyone who has ever glanced over the rich fields of Elizabethan and Restoration drama knows that not one in ten of the best plays of those periods is ever seen on the professional...
...Lyman Richards' conviction concerning music patrons is based on fact, but his proposed test is unfair to artist and patron due to conditions: "shabby disguise, busy sidewalk corner." (TIME, April...
...Says he: "In him [the artist] we may see the human faculties, as against the animal or automatic appetites, at their apex: human intensity stated in its highest terms, as Henry Adams would say." The great U. S. artists, says Josephson, have influenced Europe before the U. S.: "the test of a great American artist . . . is whether he is a good boomerang...
...that Divisionals are over many Seniors are wondering whether they have really gone through a true test of their four years work. Honors candidates in History, Government and Economics feel the problem especially acutely, particularly in view of the recent decision of the Division to give increasing weight to the results of the General Examinations and considerably less to the thesis in making awards of honors...