Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present play is a pleasant, artificial comedy; in as direct contrast as possible to the tragically philosophical "Life of Man." The purpose here is not to challenge mental passiveness or experiment with the audience's sensibilities, but simply and solely to amuse--a purpose in which it is successful...
...This contrast is of extremes. The Coolidge candidacy will not be too modest a flower, as is evident already. Neither is it likely to be as boisterous as that of Hiram Johnson threatens to be. It has good financial backing and there will be much judicious publicity...
...play is a satirical comedy purporting to display middle age at a disadvantage in contrast to first and second childhood. Three generations of the same family are summoned by the playwright. Father and mother are about to disagree amiably in order that father may marry another. Daughter is horrified; grandfather and grandmother combine with their children's child to prevent the family schism. Their efforts are for the most part amusing and occasionally approach a comic brilliance...
...theme of the constitutional liar, temporarily staving off detection by fresh falsehoods, but in the end hopelessly enmeshed in the network of his deceptions, was handled in masterly fashion more than a century before Goldoni by Corneille in "Le Menteur". In contrast to the French author's dignified verse-comedy, Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" ("The Liar") is often broadly farcical...
...propel than an eight. And most important of all, the problem of balance, with only two oars on a side, is magnified beyond all proportion to that required in an eight. By accustoming the man to a more difficult situation in preparation, the final action will seem easier by contrast...