Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The author begins by showing that the advanced races instead of pushing on, are in reality going backward, and that civilization instead of building up the races of men, is steadily dragging them down. His proof of this phenomenon rests on a firm belief that "heredity and not environment is...
"The historical novel has performed an enormous service to the study of history," he said, "and the moving picture has still greater opportunities to link the facts of history to the environment and atmosphere of the epoch. The acrobatic portrait of the old English hero in the moving-picture, Robin...
Icebound. Producer De Mille has dogged the footsteps of Owen Davis's play, except at the single point where he should have stuck closer than a brother. He does not have the wastrel ex-doughboy, returned to his granite New England, set fire to a barn out of heady...
Mr. Mackaye calls this new play of his "a comedy of human nature with primitive background," and it is the first of a series of plays by means of which the author intends to continue his efforts to interpret American life in isolated mountain environment. Previously he has written of...
Most comparisons and criticisms of our University with that of Oxford which have come to my notice have placed their emphasis upon the many advantages which the English University enjoy over Harvard. No doubt there are many advantages in favor of our friends across the sea, but most people seem...