Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cleared his throat. A wag cried, "Now for the 'cello soloist!" referring to the Premier's deep and resonant voice. Gravely, as though burdened by the import of his words, M. Briand spoke: "Never has a government under my leadership found itself facing such redoubtable circumstances. . . . The Chamber has in its hands the destiny of the Nation. ... To demand such inflation and such taxation as is now necessary is to put a great responsibility upon you. . . . But I honor my countrymen in thinking that they will thank you, their representatives, if you save the country in this perilous...
...young man should behave himself, and that if a young man highly placed misbehaves himself some public protest should accompany the public notoriety which his indiscretions have received due to his prominence. That is why I protested, and I know that many of your readers approved my protest deep in their hearts...
...wanted to go into an exegesis of its inner meaning, in to the "deep stuff", one might show that the "Main Thing" referred to by the title is the idea that illusion is as necessary in life itself as in the theatre, that illusion on the stage of life is even more enduring than on the stage of the playhouse, that illusion is "the main thing". "The Paraclete" referred to by the other title, is the eternal spirit who runs this show place called life and who seeing that men instinctively prefer pleasant lies to unpleasant truths, is a comforter...
...Joker. A ponderous pair of deep red curtains and the personality of Ralph Morgan are the chief points of interest in this play. Through these red curtains the hero is forced to walk at the big moment-presumably to instant death. His bravery unhinges the villain and pretty soon it is time to go home...
Psychology, neuroses, fixations. complexes and all the rest hava become so firmly fixed in the dinner conversation of the land that the play will be easily understood. These peculiar phenomena are dealt with in words of one syllable. An event in the hero's youth bites deep into his consciousness, is discovered and the poison let off in the approved modern fashion at the last...