Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indeed the only criterion of "Brown at Harvard" that can be rightly applied is whether or not the play is a true interpretation of Harvard. By that it stands or falls, both at Harvard and in the country at large; for Harvard men possess a proved ability to make themselves heard. The Metro-Goldwyn Company is surely undertaking a very delicate task, is playing with fire, in truth. But if the production is a success as a true interpretation of life at Harvard, no one will be readier to extend felicitations than Harvard...
...Lawyer Bryan's insistence that the only real issue of the trial was a religious one, and his insistence that literal interpretation of the Bible was the religion he and his colleagues were championing. It reduced to absurdity the notion of setting up the Bible as an educational criterion, in this fashion...
Donald Gallaher (actor who produced The Gorilla) does pretty well and the always dependable Beryl Mercer helps. The chief interest of the opening evening was in the theatre. It is the Criterion, where you have seen The Covered Wagon, The Ten Commandments, etc., returning in its old age to an early and memorable allegiance to the spoken drama...
Conceivably there are three possible reactions to this state of affairs. "As good a criterion as any other" might be the observation of the cynic, or "Another argument for good teams," that of the pragmatist. But to the serious and thoughtful observer, these facts cannot fail to bring a renewed appreciation of the extent to which the distorted sense of values induced by the present overemphasis of football, has seeped into American academic life...
...genius is Bennie Sabitino of Long Island City. Saturday morning he opened there an "Intellectual Meat Market" where the cultured customer can enjoy "a conversation with him on any question involving scientific, philosophical, artistic, and literary considerations". Thus for once arts and the crafts are in harmony, and a criterion for future artists who find art ill paid, and future savants who find saving sage bulks from the building where Bennie works. Like the man who first invented sleep, he has done a novel and helpful thing...