Word: fad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian fad, like the Oriental fad of a few years earlier, is sweeping our circles of art. It seems to have been opened by the amazingly popular "Chauve-Souris", which has already run into three editions; and it is to be carried on by an event far more notable artistically, the visit of the Moscow Art Theatre to New York in January. Boston has just felt the effects in the arrival of "He Who Gets Slapped". The Dramatic Club here, in selecting Andreyev's "The Life of Man", has acted with foresight. Even if it had no other ballast...
...that they lean backward in an effort to stand straight as out-and-out liberals. In consequence, they resort to every extreme to show themselves in full sympathy with the latest popular movement in every field. Under these circumstances, liberalism tends to become radicalism, reflected in every "latest fad,"--in post-impressionistic renderings of the "Nude Falling Downstairs" or enamelled legs to supplant hosiery. Convention, tradition, anything intellectually respectable or time-tried becomes "old-fashioned" and accordingly hopelessly damned. Every engaged couple do not insist upon having their marriage ceremony performed in the New Jersey surf in non-sinkable diving...
...this vehicle of practice and self expression. There has long been a lack of understanding and appreciation of the fundamental value and revolutionary character of the work he has been accomplishing, but it is coming to be more and more generally recognized now that the course is no fad, but has the basic idea of a new field to training and service such as can be found in very few places elsewhere. The 47 Workshop is the first course of practical dramatics which has been accorded regular academic credit on a common basis with other courses in the University...
...Eaton to be the fore-runners of a great revival in dramatics among our institutions of learning. "It looks like a very hopeful start", he said. "I think it is pretty well established in the minds of education now that the study of the drama is not a fad. Particularly in the far West are people beginning to realize the importance of giving the creative artist a chance to follow his own bent. People realize that this is a mechanical and industrial age, and that none of us have much play for our creative instincts in the ordinary round...
...accrued dividends. The object of this brief paper is to advise any young man who has the oil fever to stop and calmly consider whether he will not be wiser in keeping his feet on the solid foundation of conservative business rather than to indulge in the present day fad of many college students of studying to become oil geologists...