Word: dramatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fatal Curiosity, although not so popular as its predecessor, had a real influence on English drama. It was adapted by the German dramatist Werner . . . [which] led to a whole host of plays that became extremely popular in Germany during the 19th Century. They were known as Schicksal Dramen (fate plays). The fate plays came over to England in translation, were enthusiastically received and were in part the forerunners of the romantic melodrama, so characteristic of the last century both in England and in this country, and still in evidence today...
Orthopedist Philip Duncan Wilson of Manhattan, president of the Academy, read the message, called off the names of other famed cripples-,Æsop. Richard III, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly...
...unrelated to that of Arabic science which was magic, since the Arabs, like us, have the application of science to the exigencies of life for our goal--in other words, power over nature. Roger Bacon, as Mr. Dawson says, "seems at first sight"--so he appeared to the Elizabethan dramatist--"to belong entirely to the Arabic scientific tradition," for since he was aware of the possible misuse of science, "like the Arabs he believed that science was power and that the scientist was a wonder worker and a magician...
...trusty Cecil F. J. Dormer. Nobel prizes other than Peace are awarded in Stockholm. Last week on the same day that Norway's Crown Prince Olaf watched Premier Mowinckel award Mr. Henderson in Oslo, King Gustaf V of Sweden awarded the other Nobel winners: Literature, scrubby-bearded Italian Dramatist Luigi Pirandello (TIME, Nov. 19); Medicine, split between three U. S. physicians, Drs. George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy and George Hoyt Whipple who found that a liver diet helped pernicious anemia (TIME, Nov. 5) ; Chemistry, Professor Harold C. Urey of Columbia University for his discovery of "heavy hydrogen" (TIME...
After disparaging modern "realism," the be spectacled, sharp featured dramatist expressed the need for a more poetic and elevated style of dialogue. He made several biting remarks on the critics' taste for "comfortable" plays, but graciously asserting that the stagnation of the contemporary stage is due, not to the stupidity of the audiences, but to the venality and spinelessness of the modern playwright. Questions at the close of the lecture were answered with flashing wit. Asked whether there was not a dearth of Irish plays, O'Casey pallied gracefully by remarking that dramatisis are turning out enough plays but they...