Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHOOPEE STOP TIME HOW MANY GIRLS DO YOU KNOW WHO COULD AFFORD A LIFE OF LUXURIOUS EASE WHO CHOOSE INSTEAD THE EXACTING LIFE OF A PROFESSIONAL PIANIST STOP THE SHOTWELL SAGA WHICH YOU QUOTE HAS ONLY BEGUN FOR PIANIST SHOTWELL IS AMERICAN BORN OF MAYFLOWER STOCK AND MONEY HAS NEVER BEEN HER STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT EITHER IN HER LIVING HER FRIENDS OR HER MUSIC...
Once in a not too distant past Harvard did look favorably upon the theatrical arts. This is demonstrable by the fact that the present American stage is largely controlled by former members of the Forty Seven Workshop. The ante-dated conservative atmosphere which the teaching of the drama has now assumed at Harvard indicates that its present predominance in the theatre can not help but be short lived...
...unfortunate aspect of this fading power is not that Harvard will eventually lose its firm grasp on the American stage, but that what was once a fertile field of capable dramatists has suddenly become barren for want of cultivation. The tradition which established theatrical activity has fortunately not had time to become extinct as is definitely indicated by the recurring undergraduate efforts to cause some sort of dramatic revival. But the impetus necessary to materialize these feelings must come before the fire is smothered in the obliterating blanket of opposition and neglect...
...justified. The inevitable unrecognized prince is there; so are the dulcet-voiced prime minister and the financial adviser with a foreign accent. The plot (devised in Europe), evidently an outgrowth of the violent anti-Shylock days, is based on the poverty of the prince and the exuitant power of American money in buying his palace and its traditions. Into this not over-inspired fabric are worked comedy dialogue that is not funny and serious scenes that reek with sentimentality. Not that this last is inappropriate or even undesirable in a musical comedy, but the constant harping upon the theme...
...Yale totem pole, which is a bulldog. Either of these explanations is plausible and worth thinking about. Our own belief, however, is that the real explanation is to be found in the atmosphere of gentility which is thought to hang over the Harvard campus. Gentility, to the average American, suggests a lot of sissies: it is quite incompatible with physical prowess. So it is natural that the sports writers should pick Yale, where the boys are supposed to have hair on their chests and to eat red meat. The New York World