Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...passion to understand ourselves and the universe in which we live--these are the chief motor impulses of our race, and the third is the most inclusive of them all. Religion is not the creation of a book or priests or governments of institutions. It springs out of the heart of our human kind; it issues from the deep centres of human fears and joys, human terror and helplessness, human aspiration and insight. Its reality and authority are as veritable and undeniable as the experience which produces it is universal and intelligible. Now the minister is set to develop...
...Millenium," in which he asserts that "War is the raging drink of life and death, or hell and heaven, pressed by the hand of a God of Battles into a full cup." He also confides to the editor, "I am an ancient cave-man in my inmost soul. My heart is hot to drink the cup of wrath, to press the rue from the drunken bowl." But President Wilson in his message says that "If our citizens are ever to fight effectively upon a sudden summons, they must know how modern fighting is done, and what to do when...
...evidence that you in this country want a good theatre. If you did, you could have it; the material is here, much of it to come from Harvard. To me it is a very encouraging sign that so many of you are at heart interested in the drama, and that the opportunity is given to so many of you to study it under Professor Baker. But as things stand at the present time, with the financial side of the theatre so prominent you won't get a good theatre. There will not be an American Shakespeare until...
Slipshod English prevails throughout the number in prose and in verse. Among the contributors the thought of composition as an art seems rare. Such expressions as, "The two lawyers . . . . are unusually realistic, perhaps due to the fact that," etc., such sentences as, "It has novelty, punch, heart interest, and almost all the other ingredients which go to make up a smashing success," should not be printed in a document that is sold for more than one cent. The only story in the number, My Friend of the Smoking Room, should be powerful or nothing. It is not powerful...
...spirit of Russia which Pavlowa seems to embody so wonderfully was a little out of season, but her performance was of such perfection that it was complete in itself. With what subtlety and marvelous grace she expresses that terrible Russian contrast a wild, rhapsodical indulgence, and an all-impregnating, heart-rending despair...