Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anathema. Like most Russian plays, Anathema is a plunge into the basic mysteries and contradictions of life, but Andreyev (author of last season's Theatre Guild success, He Who Gets Slapped) works with symbolized, metaphysical ideas instead of with the raw material of actual life from which Chekov and Gorky draw...
...prove that it is a static, not a progressive, type of government, he quotes from the Papal syllabus of 1864: "If anyone says the Roman pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself and come to terms with progress, with liberalism, and with modern civilization, let him be anathema." The Dean sees three remarkably good points in this church government-it makes for loyalty, it keeps in touch with human nature through sacraments and music, it works, as far as the common people are concerned. Dean Inge points out that whereas the genius of the Roman race is primarily for government...
...more than appear. They are not to be allowed to move around. They must be stationary and must be employed only as part of the beauty of the scenic picture. Partly in answer to the urging of Jane Cowl, Ethel Barrymore, David Belasco and others of prominence, Anathema, Andrevev's powerful drama now at the Yiddish Art Theatre, is to be translated and brought uptown...
...there has been a deplorable reaction, especially noticeable among the elements most prominent in athletic and other undergraduate leadership of the colleges. The war is over. Politics grows less interesting as it departs from class and college issues, and by the time it has reached world affairs it is anathema. The sporting page of the newspapers has ten readers for every one of the first page. A murder case is much more discussed than even the pictures ue gyrations of General Dawes...