Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans, new plans and more plans. But this program is of a slightly different genus. Its forerunners were framed to meet changing ideas of education. This one was formulated to meet necessity. The College in general, and the Committee in particular, can only be congratulated on meeting that grim dragon courageously and diplomatically...
...Certainly, if what he says is so, it is fortunate for the average American's sense or national pride that he has confined his slings and arrows to his own country. Deterred, no doubt, by a press or other material, he has so far refrained from even mentioning the grim realists of the American school, who have made their happy hunting ground the fancied dullness of the Middle West...
...discerning, therefore, find in Mr. R. L. Goldberg the "disillusioned spirit of the grim, sharp-witted Schopenhauer"; in fact only "a thin veil of hilarity" disguises the very dismal outlook behind all of the so-called "funny" sections. But the genius of the artists has never received the recognition it deserves. It is time for the public to realize that "the funnies are animated with the spirit of Aristophanes, of Horace, of Rabelais, of Congreve, and of Sheridan, of Shaw and of W. S. Gilbert...
LOVE ? AND THE PHILOSOPHER ? Marie Corelli?Doran ($2.00). The ingredients of this story are a "grim and selfish" philosopher, a poor and handsome young man, a pretty but sentimental girl. Also, there is the girl's father and the War. Of course the "grim and selfish" philosopher turns out to be not as grim and selfish as he was supposed to be, and the young man discovers that he is the heir to a great deal of money, and of course at the end there is a wedding. "Has my heroine chosen the right partner for life?" asks...
...early studies he became a teacher, an occupation which he has followed at intervals ever since. His output has been stupendous, including six volumes of verse, 365 short stories, novels and 22 plays of varying character. At the root of all his work is a scornful yet not too grim irony. To date Six Characters in Search of an Author and Floriani's Wife are his only plays to be produced here...