Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Gopeau is to speak on his theatrical work. He is one of the leaders in France of the experimental theatre which is aiming to renovate the French drama. His idea is to break up that spirit in the French theatres which corresponds to the spirit of commercialism in the American theatres, and to give the drama more life and spontaneity. At present M. Copeau is giving six conferences on his work at the Little Theatre in New York City...
...best graduated from West Point. "What an officer needs," he said, "is not necessarily so much book learning, but a training that makes immediate and unquestioning obedience second nature to him. A man so trained will usually make a good leader and officer. At West Point the idea of obedience, control and discipline is so drilled into the cadets that it becomes a part of their nature...
...situation. I understand that it has become increasingly difficult to get good stories for the magazines, one reason being the greater profit from writing scenarios for the "movies," another the deductive attraction of vers libre. The latter enables a writer to utilize at once, it primitive, semi-poetic, material--idea of image--that, in the past, has had-to be worked up slowly and elaborately into conventional fiction form. Much of the "free verse" seen in the magazines is of this type--some of it quite successful and interesting, in its way, like Mr. Snow's poem, "The Girardian...
...always be reasonably certain what a Westerner's idea of Harvard will approximate. But never do we realize just how far their derision will go until we read something of the nature of Mr. Carpenter's effort. This much we may say: The most of it is such arrant and superficial satire as to lose its sting. We can even laugh about it--especially the poor ignorant Westerner's difficulties with the Boston transit system, and the supposedly cutting remarks on Cambridge weather. Who, indeed, will go so far as to take exception at the latter...
...instruction to the limit under Captain Heintzelman. The situation has not developed to the extent which in any way justifies their leaving college or trying to volunteer at the present time. I will let you know when in my opinion it is time for further action." Acting on this idea of keeping the undergraduates together, President Hibben stated that if war should come military training would take precedence over all academic work. At the same time efforts were made, in accordance with General Wood's advice, to increase the size of the officers' training at Princeton...