Word: aping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human skull claimed to be of the Tertiary period, found in Patagonia by Dr. J. G. Wolf, under the auspices of La Plata Museum. If this claim can be substantiated, ape-men existed on the earth several hundred thousand years earlier than has hitherto been proved. But the circumstances are suspicious. The skull was found in the possession of a white settler who dug it out of Pampas deposits, which may or may not be Tertiary. Scientific men are now on the way to Patagonia (which has furnished "mare's nests" before) to investigate the claim...
...Russians of the Moscow Art Theatre did not like either Hamlet or The Hairy Ape. But after seeing Laurette Taylor in Humoresque, Constantin Stanislavsky, one of the two founders and directors, remarked: " It is a marvelous adventure in realism !" So saying, he climbed up on the stage and congratulated Miss Taylor...
...fundamental principle of expressionism is the representation not of the appearance of a scene, but its meaning. A characteristic instance was the Fifth Avenue scene in Eugene O'Neill's Hairy Ape. Jewels were to the misplaced stoker only tinsel; so the shop window was filled not with gems, but tinsel. The wealthy churchgoers appeared to him automatons; so a squeaky procession of masked automatons marched across the stage...
...again and again to hear a Beethoven symphony, and find new pleasure at each venture. In his production of the three plays named Mr. Hampden brings forth those dramatic, thrilling qualities from Shakespeare, that enable him year after year to withstand hardy competition from "The Bat" and "The Hairy Ape" alike. More need not be said! WILLIAM E. HARRIS...
...matter from the point of view of the ordinary observer) but a proof of aristocracy either of descent or of mind? If a college education is worth the salt that the graduate has eaten in getting it, it has taught him to be himself, and not to ape somebody else. The in different man who goes out on the common ways of life, saying to himself "Go to, I will not be in different," is likely to make an as of himself. "To thine own self be true," indifference and all provided, of course, the sentiment or the appearance...