Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scenes of the revue itself were for the most part lacking in originality. The first scene was the exception--being a dressing-room glimpse of the show, which only opened officially in scene 2. In scene 3 Allan Prior sang with much volume, but little distinctness, in "Flowers of Evil." Then came two pieces of royal buffoonery, introducing--first Queen Bess and Will Shakespeare, and second a red-haired Oedipus Rex. The act ended with "Her Wedding Day" buffoonery rather less royal, but more effective. The second act was very much in keeping with the first; while throughout the play...
...seems clear that if the evil is to be entirely removed there must come some help through legislation, as it is not likely all companies can be induced voluntarily to abandon the practice, but we intend to do what we can to eliminate the objectionable features so far as our company is concerned...
...intelligence tests they attempt to estimate a candidate's promise, but in view of the fact that a man's character does not change in a day, the best test of what a man will do in college is what he has done in preparatory school. There is an evil of wrong emphasis evidenced by the fact that scholarship is divorced from college which their nonscholastic system fails to correct, and which ours remedies by abandoning an arbitrary standard, and by raising the standard placing the students in our preparatory schools in an intellectual competition...
...World Court,--let him strive to abolish war and to substitute trial by jury for trial by battle. Let every man obey his own individual conscience, even to the point of refusing to obey his country's orders--let him refuse to fight, if he thinks it evil. The abolitionists won their fight for slavery against the efforts of a united nation; why cannot we win with such a message to the world?", he concluded...
...commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency to banish evil influences instead of enabling men to overcome them by a sense of personal responsibility. And the present move is, besides, some what reminiscent of the retreat of the eighteenth century romanticists to their ivory tower...