Word: dramatist
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...paint this pattern, to cull and condense and throw into his medium the essence of the age in which he lives is the high purpose of the dramatist. Some dramatists limit their scope to the portrayal of but one shadow, some become hopelessly embroiled in combinations too great for their artistry, but once in a great while a dramatist avoids the overemphasis of one hue to the exclusion of all others and sometimes he avoids the dilemma of a canvass splattered with all hues. When he has done this he has created a clay in which the pertinent colors...
...same period. Later volumes described intrigue in the Catholic Church and the formation of a mysterious secret society. They introduced a young scientist, an oil magnate involved in a love affair with his partner's wife, a munitions maker with curious vices, a broken-down novelist, a successful dramatist, students, schoolgirls, fortunetellers. Major theme linking the characters was an awareness of the danger of war, which influenced their moods, their actions and above all their ambitions for the future...
...interesting fact, mental games and useful information. But The Popular Educator is more than a game or pastime. On its faculty are Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago professors, such famed educators as Historian Harry Elmer Barnes, Astronomer George Clyde Fisher, Archeologist Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, Historian Allan Nevins, Dramatist Walter Prichard Eaton, Philosopher Harry Allen Overstreet. Their students include college graduates as well as men and women who never went to high school. In its first six months, National Educational Alliance has made a small profit, but President Crawley does not expect it to be a gold mine. The editors...
...found himself in conflict with Nazi ideas of musical propriety. Nazi authorities regretted that his favorite librettist, von Hofmannsthal, had been a Jew, but agreed to let bygones be bygones if he would abjure Jewish librettists in the future. Promptly Composer Strauss got himself another Jewish librettist, Austrian-born Dramatist Stefan Zweig, and started work on a new opera called Die Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman...
Last December one member of the Goncourt Academy died, and the remaining nine, most of them well above 70, disagreed about his successor. Candidates included Humorist Tristan Bernard, Novelists Colette and Jules Romains. But for 23 years Leon Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing...