Word: criterions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter do but marry the girl, and settle down to a life as a farmer, leaving his great financial business, his New York apartment and his four menservants in the lurch. The reader is expected to sympathize with this move, and, if the experience of the reviewer is any criterion, fails pitifully. All this despite the assistance of a scene at the end, when a New York swell of Mr. Overlook's acquaintance hits the trail to Maine to find out what has happened to that financier...
...April number is any criterion, the matter of verse now receives less attention that it used to. "Along the Sky" and "Thetis" water a bit, and all though Mr. Abbott is as ever in "Les Papilions de Nuit", one might hint that here, too Pegasus feels the weight of the dictionary...
...instead of as a theme. To cut a girl's birth pains, a granny lays a whetted axe beside a plowshare under the bed. The moon's phases are watched and calculated for everything from corn-planting to paring finger nails. Good manners are the highest plantation criterion: it is bad manners to dislike soap and water, to have lice or warts, to horselaugh right in somebody's face, to have sooty feet. Never was a book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters and small are discussed with that vast volubility of people whose...
...only criterion of whether or not a sex play is pernicious is good taste. And good taste is a criterion impossible to apply, not only because good taste and public taste differ. Good taste is too evanescent; it is impossible to say offhand what is and is not in good taste. Furthermore, a great deal of the most offensive drama and literature breathes a vociferous odor of sanctity. The strength magazines, and the "art" magazines reek with it. The manager of "The Drag" says he would show the play in a church, and asks censors to point out exactly what...
...home of terpsichore and a ham sandwich the ancient boards of Brattle Hall resound this week to the thudding steps of an even more ancient comedy. The Dramatic Club has found its soul in the heel of Italy. Aided by Gilbert Seldes, American correspondent to the "New Criterion" and a member of the Harvard class of 1914, the play boys of the Cambridge world have at last achieved success: "The Orange Comedy" is funny, completely...