Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Visitors at the exhibit catch themselves thinking, not of the lengths to which the artists go to prove their independence, nor of the distorted taste revealed in some offerings, nor yet of the clever wittiness of some; but on the contrary, of the reversion to that primitive state where artists find that their works are no more than mediums for expressing observations, where their paintings are like unto Aesop's fables, where their art becomes Dreiserian...
Thoughtful commentators like Lord Bryce are no longer read ("too longwinded"). Brilliant specialists like Thomas Beer are chuckled over, then dismissed as satirists ("too clever"). Lewis Mumford steps forward, more penetrating than a Van Wyck Brooks, more coherent than a Ralph Adams Cram, far more mature, mannerly and historical than any Mencken, with a book* that is badly needed. He succinctly, brilliantly yet mellowly, summarizes U. S. culture to date...
...consented to give a short talk on the producing of musical comedies. Mr. Charlot had attained great success in London by his spectacular revues, but, realizing that the heart of this type of show was some small detail of the whole piece, such as a single song hit or clever monologue, he sought to develop a new form of light entertainment which would be a combination of light opera and the now prevailing vaudeville type of revue. Peculiarly this has been the field of drama that the Dramatic Club has exploited in "The Makropoulos Secret," "Paraclete," and "The Orange Comedy...
...reason of plot. Yet its crazy eccentricity pops, flares and gyrates the idle curiosity, and gluts the modish thirst for murder in every act. Among those possibly guilty are a set of ex-convicts bearing brands upon their foreheads. This is the first play of Edward E. Paramore Jr., clever writer. It is distinguished by better characterization than is usual or necessary in this dramatic form, is exceptionally well acted (Margaret Wycherly, in particular), and chills as well as any of these things can. It is housed in the old Empire Theatre, recently home of the legally banned Captive...
...then confessed his peculation to the bank president, tendering his check for the stolen sum, plus interest, and showing by his bank book that he was an important depositor? Suppose the banker put away the check as a weapon, and forbore arresting the clerk because obviously he was clever and had inside information on the market operations of high officials. What if the banker put this clerk in charge of a Florida boom scheme, which became such a prodigious success that Floridans begged the promoter to become their Senator? What if the banker ordered him to accept, so that...