Word: emotionalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Emotion," Professor Boring, Emerson D.
The babbits, who attended the exhibit only because they had read news-stories which led them to expect, if not a touch of pornography, at least a large dose of sacrilege or obscenity, were baffled by the thoughtful bearded face of Tagore, the horselike countenance of the Duchess of Marlborough...
The Opera. Soprano Muzio and Tenor Schipa took Verdi's libation of tunes and tears, poured it out, an acceptable sacrifice to Emotion. Muzio, as Violetta, erred, atoned and died. Schipa, as Alfred, loved loudly and blindly while Richard Bonelli, benign as the father, rubbed his hands and looked...
Nathan's Book* contains less extravagant, less ponderous chastisements of current idiocies. He flings confetti that has the effect of a sneezing powder, at "The New Morality", ("Back in the boll-weevil belt, there are, of course, married men who sleep with the family Bible in their undershirts"), "The American...
These violently uncertain elements were whipped into a poignant pageant of emotion by Rouben Mamoulian. Before Porgy opened, his name meant nothing. The next morning he had three offers from envious producers to come over and stage shows for them. He is 30, an Armenian-Russian; forsook law studies in...