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A pamphlet outlined the courses of studies, prefaced by the statement: "There will be found immediately at the academy a troupe with a topical repertory, which will aim at the replacement of slapjack buffoonery by an 'ironical satirization of the negative side of life.'"
John Gilbert undertakes to show Douglas Fairbanks how to be a hero amongst daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks'...
Infernal villain ; insane ; insolvent ; insulting to ladies; ironical praise (such as to call an attorney "an honest lawyer" when the opposite is implied) ; itchy old toad ; liar ; mere man of straw ; obituary of a living person.
The Significance. Here is an Elysian Held of fantasy out of which one will flush any number of gorgeous poetical pheasants, sly ironical foxes, and profoundly philosophical serpents. Shakespeare's Tempest is the most convenient comparison for beauty of writing. Feminism, immaculate conceptions and modern democracies are the chief butts...
If it be true that faith transcends reason, then no theosophical disputation conducted by a believer can be intellectually honest. At some points reason will fall back for support upon faith. Here, these points are many and marked. Yet, within the confines of his citadel, Father Gillan moves always in...