Word: harliquin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seriously. That is his cardinal principle. His play is none of these "-isms"--or all of them, as you wish. You can take them or leave them. We need not then be too much alarmed when Professor Leo Wiener bids us to make no truce with this "symbolist Salomeist harliquin-theatrical Evreinov", the "jumping-jack" that talks like a man. Nor need we be too much bewildered when his biographer, Kamienski, tells us. "Evreinov is a blood race horse of the Steppes unexpectedly tangoing with cows...
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