Word: individualist
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...Life of Man," which the Dramatic Club has chosen for its twenty-fifth production, Andreyev has thrown open such a door; depicting his hero, Man, as an extreme individualist,--one who has made himself the center of the universe, yet failed to establish the necessary bond between his personal existence and the laws of nature. The piece is an impelling example of the tremendously powerful drama of the "inner life,"--the life of today wherein thought in its sufferings, its joys, and its struggles, is the great motivating force. This is the drama which Andreyev calls the theatre of truth...
...reformation of the English language is now suggested. The construction "it is me" and "he don't" have been commended by Edward J. Tobin, superintendent of the Cook County, III., schools. Mr. Tobin, an individualist of a not unusual type, declares that it is of no value teaching children forms of expression outlawed by "common usage and a sense of good form...