Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boheme. In a perfect spasm of Art and classic reverence, Metro-Goldwyn has taken the fiction of Henry Murger, chiefly famous for Puccini's opera written around it, and produced a "super-picture." Lillian Gish and John Gilbert are the players and the director is King Vidor. After failing in an attempt to purchase the cinema rights to the Puccini music (although it is said $150,000 was offered), a complete special score was obtained which approximated the classic melodies. Everything then was done to make the picture memorable. It turned out a trifle-tiresome. The story...
...many respects the modern audience governed itself in the classic manner handed down from generations of hanging. Despite twentieth century civilization, the etiquette of old-fashioned justice held sway. After the noose had done its work, the body hung long on view for the edification of the populace. Babes in arms were hoisted high on their mother's shoulders that they might see their first dead wrong doer,--no doubt with the worthy expectation of a consequent decrease in crime twenty years hence...
...cage. With only one attempt remaining to him, Glen-dinning of Dartmouth, after two false starts, came through with a leap which bettered by one half inch the mark previously set by Jones, the Crimson jumper. Probably the most spectacular per- formance, with the exception of Kane's classic in the relay, was Watters' race in the 1000. The University middle distance star was almost too sick to walk just before the race. He overcame a poor start, and fought every step of the way to shoulder ahead of a Cornell runner on the last turn and finish behind...
Timon of Athens really delighted in his reputation as a misanthropist. And hurling stones at all and sundry he advanced his chest in classic pride at being thought a bater of man. But not all of us have that classic pride. So when hints come down Plympton Street that a certain criminal is also a misanthropist, a misogynist--indeed, a mistake. The Crime, Column shivers like a traffic cop, feels as unscrupulous as the Memorial Hall clock. For last week's salute, though not a salut d' amour was really not the expression of undying hate. One the contrary...
Western civilization, be it bathtubian or bunk, is a reality which necessarily had to be analyzed by fictionists before they could use it as a medium for classic expression. The time has now come when the analysis is no longer new, no longer prepotent. Indeed one can easily believe with such critics as Carl Van Doren here and J. C. Squire in England that a real dawn is illuminating the field of American letters...