Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play has officially been termed a comedy, but, in the modern sense of the word, it is not that: its value lies deeper in the spontaneity and simplicity of purpose which separate it completely from its deplorably self-conscious contemporaries. In a sense, it might be termed a reversion to the Elizabethan spirit. which arbitrarily inserted comedy into tragedy and tragedy into comedy, in order that audiences at the Globe standing elbow to elbow, should not become unduly restless. "The Late Mr. Christopher Bean" is neither a tragedy nor a comedy: it is a medley of dramatic ingenuities and pure...
Perhaps the most important point, so far as the college man is concerned, which he made in this series of lectures, was his statement that reform must come through a process of education which brings new social standards before the people, and makes them more conscious of the all-important role which city government plays in their affairs. But far more significant than anything Mr. Seasongood might say concerning local government are the actual achievements of him and his colleagues in Cincinnati. At a time when there is prevslent widespread corruption on the one hand, and a sense...
...tomorrow; he draws a hopeful contrast between the hectic stampede of America to a vacuous, sordid prosperity, and the Russians, earnestly blundering toward civilization. In the new generation of Americans, which has no need to be "lost," he sees the germs for a restoration of the ideals and the conscious efforts toward betterment which were destroyed by the war and the cynical disillusionment of the last decade...
Marching straight up to the Ministry of Interior, where abashed guards fell back, the women presented a petition, stating that "Sickness insurance and unemployment insurance are recognized by our Union of the Midwives of Czechoslovakia and we demand Justice. . . . Conscious of our duty we have declared no strike and will peaceably return from this demonstration to our tasks but we must have higher...
...with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much to be of flesh and blood. But in the end we do not know whether she was a phantom of his sub-conscious imagination, a ghost, or a real person. We are assured that the whole thing is probably but a lapse into madness, but the last bit of evidence about the finding of the basket she had carried makes us wonder. It is this very uncertainty that makes the story uncanny...