Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michel Auclair. This play, sponsored by the Provincetown group, is a pledge of lost hopes, a souvenir of misshapen direction. The author (Charles Vildrac) is a sort of French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills...
...that every unbiased observer might have expected. He can find no proof justifying the award to her of the "Scientific American's" prize for the first conclusive case of spiritual manifestations. Professor McDougall assumes the scientific attitude of "not proved". The perusal of his evidence might even lead a casual observer to cry fraud...
...cold) tall young men who waddled, short young men who strode; the worried, the weasel-faced, the debonair: men distinguished by their intelligence, by their apparel; lambs, lions, scoffers, leaders, bleaters, men who, in other clothing might have been artists. Seven hundred idle, able, rowdy, snobbish, gay, amused, determined, casual, dismal Harvard lads (as motley as only as assembly of U. S. students can be) stared up at a window in Langdell Hall...
...tall young men who waddled, short young men who strode; the worried, the weasel-faced, the debonair; men distinguished by their intelligence, by their apparel; lambs, lions, scoffers, leaders, bleaters, men who, in other clothing might have been artists. Seven hundred idle, able, rowdy, snobbish, gay, amused, determined, casual, dismal Harvard lads (as motley as only an assembly of U.S. students can be) stared up at a window in Langdell Hall. It was the window of Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School, who has recently been offered the Presidency of the University of Wisconsin...
...published some years ago in the Cosmopolitan Magazine it was said of Mr. Rockefeller Jr.: "He is an utterly negative person. . . ." Negatives stated of him in another magazine were: ''He has no personal enemies. . . . His altruism has never been questioned." These statements were based on correct, if casual, considerations of his ethics, his philanthropies, his business...