Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This important fact must be kept well in mind if one is to grasp the full significance of the play. Otherwise its overtones, its subtle flavor will be entirely lost. Each character must be viewed as playing several parts simultaneously, as being at once a creature of two or more worlds. The author, true to his conception, expects the audience to contribute their share in helping create the illusion but he has made it easy for them to achieve this participation by removing the boundaries between the stage and the stalls and making the whole theatre the scene...
...acknowledging this debt to Germany, Harvard students of today cannot help being reminded of certain evils which still are found in Harvard education: evils which survive from that antiquated Harvard against which Sparks complained a century ago; evils which, though not Teutonic in genesis, have, nevertheless, a strong German flavor. For German A is the classic example of this fossil remnant of an unenlightened past...
...agree with Mr. Wilson that "Rip Van Winkle" should be revived. It is an interesting adaption of Irving's folk lore classic and it has a charm and mellow homeliness which are found nowhere else with just this flavor. Despite its imperfect dramatic qualities, "Rip Van Winkle" is a delightful play with a wealth of beautiful and quaint effects--a play to be seen and a play long to be cherished in the memory
Mayor-elect James A. Walker of New York, who may certainly be classified as a Tammany bird, is among the earliest and perhaps most tactful. Last Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia, he made a speech. Which is reported to have had a political flavor, as one might well have suspected. It is said that he eulogized his own little nest in New York and lamented that the other Democrats of the country had been so reluctant to accept an invitation to share it with him and his fellows. Reference was made, in the course of his speech, to a certain member...
...Authors. Joseph P. Marquand fellow-townsman of Lord Timothy Dexter, took rank in U. S. letters with Black Cargo, a well-told tale of the slave trade. His present work, eked from scanty material, suffers slightly from padding but maintains a sardonic flavor well suited to the subject...