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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...darkened theatre the blinding spotlight reveals a jazz band in Pierrot costumes. The curtain opens on gaily painted settings, and the lyric intensity of men and women who dance, love, suffer and die, to the casual irony of the bleating rhythm of saxophones...
...comes as a marked infringement of liberty and at the time when personal liberty is in danger. We must take account of where we stand or we shall go down as other nations have gone down." He reminded the country of two earlier laws which had been allowed to die-the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the Fifteenth Amendment...
...Prince stood up. Complete silence. Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums. "Meneer die Speaker," began the Prince in Boer Dutch. He got no further for some minutes. The Boer "rebels" let out one roar : Ous Prins! (Our Prince) and secession of South Africa from the British Commonwealth lay, apparently shattered, on the floor. Cheers, table banging, clapping, Boer and British songs finally over, the Prince continued, still speaking Dutch...
...appeared in the terror-striken visions and "ha'nts" of "Emperor Jones" has come to permiate the entire play in "The Hairy Ape" till we see everything from the point of view of the central character. Similarly, among the German Expressionists, Ernst Toller, who had at first, in "Die Wandlung" and in "Masse-Mensch" alternated with reality dream-scenes showing what was going on in the mind of his characters, has emerged altogether from the dream settings in his later plays "Die Maschinensturmer" and "Der Deutsche Hinkemann". In other words the Freudian psycho-analysis which had at first been applied...
Words like "flapper", "vamp", "necker" and what not insult countless ears besides those of Representative Branch of Florida until they come to be completely disregarded and overlooked. Thus, a nourished, they at last die out, but such protests as this suggested bill in Florida will only glorify and strengthen them. There are always people to cry for the right of the citizen to express himself in his own choice...