Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what is "a petty public service?" I should say that an act were either a public service or else no public service, and I should say that a note on a genuine new fashion would fall into the latter class, being a service not to the General Public, but to the editors of TIME, who are trying to get something for nothing. What is the answer...
...regular parvenu, an entertainment which is a veritable miracle of extravagant bad taste, which even Mr. Cecil de Mille would find difficult to rival. This the rest from the editing of the over cantious publisher, but the subsequent omission of the chapters $6 and $2 complete is hardly an act which will recommend it self to the judicious and exacting reader. To be sure, these passages and the delightful interline included therein might not be missed by students unfamiliar with the original text, but without them and the sundry other amourous moments wherein the chastest of embraces have been substituted...
During the intermission of the Harvard Yale football dance tonight at the Union, members of the Yale Glee Club will sing. There will also be a clog dancing act and a xylophone solo, both by members of the University, whose names have not been announced. Supper will be served in the dining room from 12 to 1 o'clock...
...rather nebular conception of the so-called "Harvard manner" troubles us even more. Why, we query, should a man act like a gentleman in college? Or, for that matter, why shouldn't he? A person's polish, blithely spattered upon a well-thumbed pedigree, will hardly serve him in peddling bonds. Wherefor then, all this poifect gent stuff? Is it, too, an adaptation to environment? Perhaps, but since the wholesome prostitution of "good names" has become a disturbing realization to most of the Beacon Street element there must be something beneath the surface. The Harvard man must actually have...
...Gide is French; his book set in Paris, Switzerland, etc., etc. The book has no story in the accepted sense; is often described by the character-novelist as "a slice of life." The characters, chiefly young men with intellectual pretensions, occasionally their mistresses, argue and act and idle through its pages much as they would through life. Many critics have acclaimed the book a masterpiece. It is not glib railroad-train reading...