Word: bards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inasmuch as the Bard wrote without the use of a curtain, many of his scenes are bound so closely together that any appreciable wall destroys the continuity of action. For this reason I have arranged to make the intermissions between acts and scenes of a minimum duration; this can easily be accomplished with our type of semi-permanent scenery. When the wait does not exceed half a minute the theatre is kept dark in order to maintain the flow of action and proven occasion for untimely criticism and comparison. For instance, in the ghost scene of "Hamlet," when the prince...
Some seasons ago, the country was flooded with productions of Shakespeare in modern dress: played seriously, with the text of the Bard untouched. The result of most of them was scathing criticism by Shakespearian scholars...
...others, discussed by all," such was and is the fate of his genius. Germans discovered it early and compared M. Claudel to Goethe. Britons are coming to admit, at last, that Paul Claudel, though he is often as obscure as Shakespeare could be, has also some of the bard's creative imagination. Frenchmen are still of two minds about Claudel. "Ha!" snorted once, reputedly, M. Clemenceau, "he writes like a holy ghost-when did France ever have such an Ambassador...
...some ugly details of how Rumania deals with her Jews (TIME, Dec. 13) came to light when Queen Marie threw the spotlight of world interest full upon the Danube. Last week repercussions of this anti-Semite movement prompted an article in Harpers Magazine by the Austrian publicist Josef Bard. Striking shrewdly at the roots of antiSemitism, Herr Bard postulates five attributes possessed by Jews which give them an advantage over Christians in the modern competitive life struggle...
Conclusions. Publicist Josef Bard asserts that Christians?1) subconsciously suspect that the New Testament is an emotional poison or at least a trick invented by the Jews and perpetrated upon Christians, whose competitive efficiency is reduced while that of the Jew is unimpaired; 2) realize the superior competitive efficiency of the Jew and seek to nullify it by violence, a game the Jew cannot play successfully...