Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accumulative effect of the play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand we seldom trust. The people among whom he is placed in the play are good people but their attitude towards him is the attitude of many of the audience. They cannot sympathize with him. But with it all there is a feeling of certainty, of faith in himself...
...meet all of their classmates and in every way in which they are able to promote class feeling and class unity. Without a wide acquaintance they will find it impossible to make the appointments to their various committees just and representative, and unless this is done the committees will fail to be effective in their work...