Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late holy war at Dayton, Tenn., gave occasion for a great host of fakirs, professional prophets and pseudo-scientific potboilers to flood the land with cheap literature for and against Evolution. The end of the aftermath is not yet. Even the Bible-sellers have felt the boom and prepared popular editions of that much-feared-for book. But if any new Evolution text for laity should be absolved of the Dayton imprimatur it is the present volume. Mr. Ward, lately a teacher at the Taft School, lives in New Haven, Conn., where he is an imtimate of Professors Woodruff, Keller...
...Significance. War being an irrational thing, its aftermath verges on insanity. An analytical person, particularly a racial polyglot, can cope with the welter of causes and patriotisms only by adopting a sportive fatalism. Author Gerhardi's minor characters develop this sociological thesis on a very high plane of comedy. The major characters, who dwell on the border line of high tragedy, give a more intimate demonstration of the same philosophy...
...come back with tales of suffering and disappointment, or the bright hope of fresh discovery. They may not come back at all. All this lies ahead or them but no more, for when they have seen and returned, the reality of knowledge will close forever over this final aftermath of the age of exploration...
...safely crowded into Appleton, one might hear the lilting songs of plowboys coming home early from Soldiers Field. That were pastoral felicity! But alas! to he awakened at four in the morning by the cackle of hens in the all too appropriate Lampoon Building--that would be a sad aftermath of a perfect day in rural Cambridge...
George Kelly has taken for the subject of his farce the grotesqueries of amateur theatricals. We see the rehearsal, performance, and aftermath of a one-act-play, as it is presented by a group of "society" women who will never realize that they will never act. Mr. Kelly provides several new jokes and the Copley players bring in all the old ones. the audience guffaws genteelly. . . and "The Torch Bearers" enters its second week...