Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trip afforded a good opportunity for the graduates and others interested in Harvard in the communities they visited to hear them. It will be just as well to postpone another trip for a few years and to take advantage of the reputation thus earned. More than an occasional exploit of this nature is to be deplored...
...today plays are perfectly mounted and the actors excel in showing the problems of every day life. In modern plays there is less outward motion and more exposition of human consciousness, less noise and more feeling. This new field has been opened by Ibsen. A star play tries to exploit a single personality and so spoils the harmony of the whole. For this reason no great writer has ever written star plays. The difference between the plays of a generation ago and of today may be seen by comparing Sardou and Ibsen. Sardon is theatrical and mechanical, while Ibsen...