Word: dram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally rounded periods, the pretty, artificial prose of more leisurely men. They will object to the monotony of the author's direct, simple sentences. True, there is nothing leisurely about Mr. Hemingway's style: he goes quickly to seize the barest vital essentials, presenting them in the most concise, dram- atic manner. This directness, this simplicity is necessary to the author's purpose, the presentation of reality. What man, we may ask, with more complicated literary machinery, has ever come so near that goal? Mr. Hemingway finds life a very crude, a very various thing and so he represents...
...been started, is growing beneath our very nose- We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government,"--we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country, is not partly in the power of a collection of dram-drinking politicians...
...laying his finger on the weaknesses of present day drams. Professor Baker yesterday also raised an interesting point in connection with the purpose of drama itself. He pointed out that the great dramatic of America today is a good theatre, giving good plays to an audience of eclectic taste. That fault of the day in American dram is the lack of standards a play being considered for its business qualifications rather than its art. The solution Professor Baker feels lies with more and more producers with a purpose beyond more money making; producers of the type of Winthrop Ames. Arthur...