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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tory critics wrote venomous articles excoriating Epstein. They pointed out that, while the nymph in Green Mansions had been a creature so spiritual, that she required no other garments than cobwebs, so sensitive that she could understand the language of the birds, Epstein had represented her as a "superstitious, brutal-looking figure, with a queer anatomy." They viewed with alarm her orgiastic pose, her huge hands, her Babylonian visage. Unruffled, Epstein replied: "I am quite content with my own work and do not seek the approval of others. ... It is not surprising that I have some critics in the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Epstein | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...WILD DUCK?One of Henrik Ibsen's grim contributions to the world's progress. Proves that idealism is a brutal boomerang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 18, 1925 | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...torn from the hungry innocent existence of the prairies is this play, which won some sort of prize at the University of California. An orphan girl and a runaway boy on a farm fall rather inevitably into each other's arms. They attempt to run away from the brutal farmer, are hauled back. The girl finds herself about to have a child. The farmer beats the boy to death with a bull whip. The girl jumps into a well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 20, 1925 | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

Senator George (Democrat): "There are some features of the rules, no doubt, that should be changed; but he defeated any change by the brutal and clownish way in which he went about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reaction | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

Distance and space might be raised as objections to this scheme. But even these might be easier task-masters than brutal Britain. At least, it would be a fine thing for Harvard to make such an offer. It would be for God, for Liberty, and for Ireland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What more noble? | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

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