Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Artists often wonder, said Mrs. Fiske, if they are doing any good when they compare their art with practical human work which supplies a pressing need. The justification of the drama must be found in its power to soften the brutal instincts which lie hidden in every man. Acting today is becoming specialized, and the range of actors is growing smaller. The actors of the past generation were better in Shakespearian roles than modern actors: but today plays are perfectly mounted and the actors excel in showing the problems of every day life. In modern plays there is less outward...
...Wooly Goliaths game far enough? Why does this good old game of football languish in America? Why does good old Rugby languish? Why do not the men who pine upon the bleachers take this up and make it popular? It is a better game in some respects and less brutal than its American brother. It is less sure to maim and kill. But there is room enough for all of them. CHARLES G. FALL, '68, Venice, December...
...community, however, may not be the better for learning, for, though brutal crimes may be less frequent, knowledge has taught man many ways of petty meanness. Educated men, though infrequently possessing those personal qualities which enable them to exert immediate control over the wills of others, are able by their dispassionate criticism to rule in calmer moments. To bring things back to their proper perspective is the art of the learned...
...within the last twenty years, is the class of young men, the sons of those who have made their own large fortunes. Young, educated, the masters of wealth and leisure, with no-large es- tates to take their attention and no active interest in politics, the possessors merely of brutal cash, they have become one of the most serious problems of the church. The solution of these problems, the church finds in the priesthood of the laity. This is the reason that it has the right to ask college men to be earnest and to follow the example of such...
...Capture of Cat. Awakening of guards. "Guard song and dance." Drinking of sleeping potion left by fakirs. Entrance of Vizier and Ministers. Disappearance of cat. Song by Prince Idols and chorus, "My Hindu Unda." Entrance of Rao Final chorus, Rao (R. Inglis '03) and soldiers, "We're a very brutal crew." Tableaux...