Word: emotionalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FROM ROUSSEAU TO PROUST-Havelock Ellis-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Before the Nobel Prize Committee announced that no award for literature would be given this year, the magazine Books Abroad conducted a symposium to test the opinion of U. S. critics on likely candidates. Maxim Gorki received five votes, Theodore Dreiser...
(2 of 2) at this point. He studies Rousseau's influence on modern concepts of beauty, on modern ideals of human love, modern political theories, eventually concludes: "Rousseau stood, in opposition to our artificial and inharmonious civilisation, for the worth of life as a whole, the simple undivided rights...
There is pride among the cities, as O. Henry has affirmed, and among most colleges there is a fierce patriotism that brooks no doubt that Alma Mater is the greatest institution in the world. At Harvard, however, where patriotism is considered a weak emotion, there is on equally studied nonchalance...
Madame Alla Nazimova is as much concerned with the progress of her acting as the young amateur. Learning that we had seen the performance of the night before as well as that night's, she asked us which one we considered, the better. We finally remarked, after a natural hesitation...
To illustrate strength of emotion and truth of characterization in Ibsen's plays, she told a performance of his "Enemy of the People" in Moscow, where the audience divided itself into two camps in the theatre.