Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society plans to make three productions of one act plays. The major productions will be presentations of "Beyond The Horizon" by Eugene O'Neil, "Land's End", by F. L. Lucas, and "Days To Come," by Lilian Hellman. Membership is open to students...
...swing-crazy world has come a small book called "Young Man With a Horn", by Dorothy Baker which rather unconsciously contains about the finest description of swing music that could be put into words. It is a short novel, inspired by the playing of an excellent musician in a jazz orchestra who died several years ago, and it merely tells the story of Rick Martin, who found in swing an outlet for artistic expression but at the same time a destructive medium which he could not fit to his life...
...Next come the money makers, 33 of them, who plan to enter business administration, but after that there is another turn away from lucrative professions as 16 go for journalism, 15 for chemistry, 12 for "writing", 11 for politics or public service and 10 each for the foreign service and engineering...
When we feel doubts as to the essential goodness and superiority of government by the people, we can revitalize our faith by turning to Thomas Mann, outcast of fascism, prophet of democracy, who has come to its home to preach his holy belief in the latter. In deep, organic tones, he voices his faith in the inevitability of democracy. So long as man believes in his own dignity and in a sense of justice, democracy is necessary. Trite and hackneyed phrases these, but such things assume a new meaning by their very absence...
...type, hardly exciting with the exception of "How Can You Tell an American" and "The Scars", and are excellently rendered by the chorus; the principals, however, are less successful. Mr. Logan's work is good, but Mr. Mielziner's sets are a disappointment. Decidedly the show's happiest interludes come by virtue of the seven burghers of New Amsterdam...