Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creates a strong sympathy for both of his leading characters that follows to the end of the play. When he sets David to orating on the Futility and Superficiality of the present he unfortunately fails to be convincing, or even amusing. Cocktails and smart talk might be thoroughly evil, but David is merely trite on the subject. Aside from this, there is only one major fault in the play, and that is a very flat end. The discovery of the police delivered in a long and dull exposition by officer Cuff and the final acceptance of the verdict whatever...
...useless to point to numerous individual cases of men who have failed at Harvard because they did not orient themselves in its rather complex existence, and then to hope that this tea dance will eradicate that evil. But it should do something to create a more aimiable and friendly atmosphere for the occasional isolated and friendless freshman...
...seen whether a sufficient demand for the paper or its own journalistic merits warrant its existence but its mere appearance shows that Socialism is the only branch of politics in which any active undergraduate interest is now being shown at Harvard. This does not verify the inherent goodness or evil of the Marxian doctrines, but it does indicate the Republican and Democratic platforms no longer contain anything worth disputing...
...much of a handicap for the cast, who rescue the play from the depths of ham melodrama by skillful and intelligent acting. White slavery on the Chinese and San Francisco water fronts with the usual handsome young hero to rescue his fair maiden from the clutches of would be evil doers are the ingredients of the plot. This time it is further complicated by the difficulties of a liaison between a Chinese girl and her American lover, but love finds a way before the final fade-out so that the audience won't be disappointed...
...Miss Violet) was not to be seen. A few seconds later another entree was attempted and successfully attained. It seemed that Miss Violet had been doing a bit of reading and had not yet had the time to "change". The book was Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil...