Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Living Room of the Union last evening, a pettion against the fearful atrocities that are now being perpetrated against the natives in the Upper Congo region of Africa has been placed in the Union office. To anyone who did not hear Mr. Clark's bloodcurding narrative no wards depict the cuetly and the inhuman tortures by which these wretched beings are compelled to slave for King Leopold of Belglum, which would render practical unattainable the cause to which Mr. Clark is devoting his life work, that the pettion has been started. If enough mon can be induced to sing...
...School for Scandal." French dramatists, on the other hand, have been producing and are now producing dramatic works that are a part of the literature of France. This is because their drama and literature are wedded, and the French audiences know that their drama is intended to depict life, and not to amuse them by clownery...
...every country have a certain brutality of instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during the last ten years. Zola has betrayed Truth; he has made up his mind to depict human nature as ugly, and accordingly all classes fail to recognize themselves as he depicts them. In defence of this pessimistic attitude of Zola, the reply should be that one cannot expect an artist to paint things as they really are; but to paint things as he sees them. Zola...
...Senior board hands over the paper to the class of 1902. In the article. "An Apology for Stories," the present number departs distinctly from the beaten track. The "Apology" takes up briefly and concisely the questions of college literary productions, and undertakes to account for their failure truly to depict college literary productions, and undertakes to account for their failure truly to depict college life, or, in the words of the writer, "to discover why college stories are not better than they are." In the closing words of this article, the field of the Advocate is well defined...