Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking of smallness--that used to be the chief characteristic of audiences at musicales, Browning Society meetings, and lectures on early Florentine primitives. But that day is past, largely because this age of machinery is forcing all of us in self defense to be musicians or poets. And the fine arts are no longer limited to temperamental immortals. Some of our magazine poetry furnishes sufficient cause for the comment of that jealous critic who said that free verse was the very poor art of saying nothing poorly...
...Living Age...
...dialogue that makes it intensely funny,--a trace of satire and a dash even of dignified burlesque, but always perfectly plausible people in everyday situations. The money-box penalty for swearing has become a stock device in comedy, and the quarrel between husband and wife over expenses is age-old; but they are handled ingeniously enough here, plus a trivial affaire de coeur between two guests at a house-party, to make adequate substance for a four-act drama...
...part of the Cardinal was not clearly and strongly played even by Mr. Mantell himself. Richelieu in the play is an iron-willed man, a master of the subtleties of court intrigue, a commanding figure in age and genius. He is an old man, to be sure, but a supremely dominating and dignified prince of the church. The dignity and dominance which Mr. Mantell often created were dispelled by a straining for laughs and comic effects, obtained by broad and undignified comic by-play, almost as soon as they were gained. "That inherent majesty of soul, that simplicity of demeanour...
...football which are to go into effect next year? There must have been not a few; not a few who had a feeling that something which since their first school days they had venerated as Harvard spirit had begun to die out; that the blessings with which the age that is past had surrendered Harvard to them were somewhat doubtful...