Word: brutus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brutus, his best friend, did not dare to tell...
...many things. Nor do we know how much the Harvard Cooperative Society, Inc., has to do with Harvard University. Nevertheless, there is a juxtaposition, a nearness to the rose that makes one look for the higher and finer things. And so when one beholds "Catalog," one wanly looks at Brutus Harvard and asks, "No E. no U, just og?" Boston Transcript...
...pathetic, for the emotional, failed signally to capture the main dramatic theme of the Democratic Convention. It was a nominating Convention, and blindly the Press sought drama in the nomination, a hero in the nominee. Shakespeare, a greater dramatist, knew well that, in the tragedy of Caesar, Brutus was the moving character...
...Only Child shows how easily a child may be spoiled by a romantic mother. The cure is effected by sensible Lucius Brutus Allen, a comfortable town philosopher, who appears also in The Spring Concert, where he wooes unsuccessfully the beautiful Mary Ricketts. Philosophically he makes a match between her and young Perley; and in Maytime in Marlow meets a former sweetheart, now a widow with two children. He alone can manage the children, and so at last he succeeds in love...
Referring to the character of Caesar himself as portrayed in Shakespere's tragedy, Professor Kittredge stated that although Caesar was murdered comparatively early in the play, his spirit infiuenced all the rest of the drama to the tragedy at Philippi. When the ghost of Caesar appears to Brutus on the eve of Philippi," said Professor Kittredge, "it appears as realistic to Brutus as if Caesar were there in person. His spirit pervades the drama as truly after death as before...