Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever Wassermann is concerned with the problems of good an evil. With a slight tendency to run off into mystic symbolism, his books are all highly and openly philosophic; only his Viennese delicacy and finesse have saved him from the bogs and fogs which beset most German writers. He pictures a group of people, the life of whom is calm and ordered; but somewhere in this group there is the ferment of evil. In the path of each little insignificant wrong, punishment subtly folows sin. Nemesis pursues Man--Oedipus, Christian Wahnschaffe--, Man, who must act and yet knows...
...Abraham's Bosom. Eugene O'Neill brought the Greenwich Village Provincetown Theatre to theatrical, artistic prominence. When he went "uptown," the Provincetown came upon evil days. Along comes another Moses to lead them out of debt. He is Paul Green, young North Carolina teacher, author, playwright...
...parties and festivities. It is reported that most of the fraternities are in favor of rejecting the requirement, which may result in the abandoning of some of the usual functions next month. This action of the Williams faculty is undoubtedly motivated by a conscientious desire to remove an existing evil. But no matter how earnest its endeavor, the faculty can never accomplish its purpose without the cooperation of the students themselves. A pledge of the sort required can do little good by itself. Those sincere enough to refuse such a promise will lose their party, but drinking will...
...endure to live. It will supersede the use of other means yes Military. They are afraid of Military action because the action of the Military shall be instantly and accurately component to the will of the Commander. Terror is the grand instrument. Terror can work only through assurance that evil will follow any failure of conformity between the will and action willed. Every failure must therefore be punished. Even the most minute must be visited with the heaviest in fiction, and as failure in extreme exactness must frequently happen, the occasion of cruelty must be incessant, therefore (Military...
...internal consciousness of Rupert Hughes, and expressions of the way Hughes would have acted. "I found 297 statements in the book which are absolutely false; 111 which are extremely doubtful, and 165 paragraphs in which Hughes discusses a character which has never before been discovered as the evil genius behind Washington. That is Sally Fairfax. In fact, the book is written to give us a good dose of Sally Fairfax." Concerning the other book, Professor Hart said...