Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of a series of special Sunday afternoon meetings to be held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society at Phillips Brooks House, President Eliot will speak on "Joy in Work" at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow. Dean Delmar Leighton '19 will preside and Mme. Marie Dalliere will play selected violin pieces...
With reference to the stories themselves. Professor Palmer showed how the "Iliad", with a duration of only a few days, reaches a great height of splendor, while the Odyssey has an even beauty, which is lacking in the "Iliad", as well as great artistic skill. "The ability to produce joy", he said, "seems to be at its height in these poems. It is not the source of the various incidents, but the way in which they are welded together that is the sign of the artist...
...first of the special series, February 18. President Eliot will talk on "Joy in Work". Professor G. H. Palmer will address the second meeting on February 25 on "The Nature of Forgiveness", while "The Irish Question in Literature" will be the subject of a talk by Dr. S. McC. Crothers '99 on March...
...kinsfolk seems to establish more clearly his state of utter want. In the part that follows, J. J. Collier and Miss Secoy did a really splendid piece of acting. Andreyev has unfettered his wings of imagination and let them soar at will. The ecstasy, the pathos, the stabbing joy of building castles in the air, or high above a fjord, were portrayed with a remarkable degree of freshness and enthusiasm. The author has a most happy way of allowing his hero to beat his luminous wings and then bring him up sharply with a prosaic and realistic thought, half-regretfully...
...forced to go to the encyclopedia or its equivalent for our facts, as Shakespeare did. Nothing need be said about that long line of Hamlets of the century after Garrick. People went to the theatre for the joy of it. No clever criticism wrinkled the brow, and no tongue was stuck in the cheek over any performance. A jovial mob lounged in the theatre and awaited the actors. If they liked the play they broke out a clapping and a-yelling; if they did not like it they let fly any bric-a-brac that came to hand...