Word: chekhovisms
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...have had a chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already somewhat old-fashioned and dusty museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most active leader in the revolt against all this realism, by that dare-devil of the Russian drama Nicolai Nicolaevich Evreinov--or Yevreynoff, if that spelling gives you more of the thrill of the exotic and esoteric...
...York Times pointed out that the Nobel Prize committee, "on the whole, frowns upon rebels and pessimists"; that Tolstoy lived nine years and Chekhov four years after the prize was established (1901); that Gorky and Andreiev, each with a wide reputation, have never been honored; that the donor's prime purpose was to establish a forum for the genius of small and "backward" nations...
Some men who will say with the Russian Chekhov, "We judge' human activities by their goal," not by their incidental failures in detail, and who recognize that Wilson's aim was, in Lincoln's words, "something that held out a great promise to all the people of the world for all time to come...
...Chekhov, "The Darling"; C. A. Eastman, "From the Deep Wood to Civilization"; H. A. Franck, "Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras"; O. L. Hatcher, "A Book for Shakespeare's Plays and Pageants"; H. S. Kerrick, "Military and Naval America"; M. Maeterlinck, "The Wreck of the Storm"; G. Moore, "The Brook Kerith"; C Morton, "The Art of Theatrical Makeup"; J. Masefield, "Gallipoli"; B. Matthews, "A Book About the Theatre"; W. J. Locke, "The Wonderful Year"; E. P. Oppenheim, "The Austrian Court from Within"; W. Roberts, "Book-Verse"; F. W. Seward, "Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat"; E. H. Southern...