Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of public amusement; yet grave doubts may be held whether all readers can yet withstand Author Allen's affecting periods. The world is now thought to be safe for democracy of the sexes, yet there is more than one reading for the tag in Critic Ernest Boyd's learned introduction: Plus ca change, plus c'est la méme chose...
Guspidors, adult-infantilism, snails women and monocles all enter into Mr. Ernest Boyd's discussion of the American panorama, in the Century magazine. Mr. Boyd belongs to that ever increasing group of radicals who are inclined to think that, all things being considered--including Europe, this country is not entirely devoid of merit. Others may not like us, in fact he says, "Columbus, I suppose, was one of the few foreigners who were agreeably surprised when they discovered America". But foreigners are a luxury which we may, if it he necessary, omit. And so are the continental ex-patriates...
...just a moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries is responsible, thinks Mr. Boyd, for the inferiority complex which we are now suffering. Nor will ruminating on the subject make us less inferior...
These defenders of national vanity, such as Mr. Boyd, are cheering souls. But for them the average citizen might be tempted to seek the river and thus rid himself of it all. Having psycho-analyzed its condition, mental and economic, for the last decade, the nation may now turn to the business of convalescing from its shame. To be an American does not always mean to be a boorish wretch,, unconscious of the higher things in life. Without degenerating into flagwaving one may easily endure a comparison of the United States with its most caustic critics...
...play to be presented by the student theater is "The Patriarch," written by a Yale undergraduate, Boyd Smith of Elkins, West Virginia. The production has been approved by Professor George Pierce Baker head of the Yale Department of Drama, who was formerly in charge of the Harvard "47" Workship. The author of the play is a member of an advanced class in play-writing and has written several successful short dramas...