Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This play, which is the 39th annual production of the Cercle Francais, was written in 1881. The author was known as a keen student of the adolescent girl in all her complexities and vicissitudes. He shows her manner of laughing, sometimes mocking, sometimes subdued; he pictures her amiable in her troubles, and proud in her regrets. He shows how she attempts to conceal her preferences, then how she betrays herself, blushes, and becomes care-free and dreamy when love knocks at the door...
Newman can outwrite the cleverest of the sophisticates. His literary manner is a nimble and adaptable instrument, bubble-light, steel-keen. His taste is of the highest degree of nicety, his appreciations broadly tolerant He is courageously frank, never self-consciously clever. Above all, he has what is usually lacking among our native critics in Music as in the other Arts?a profound background of intelligent scholarship...
...Libby has for 14 years been a keen student of the European situation. Upon graduation from Andover Theological Seminary he received a two year traveling fellowship and went to Europe where he studied for a year at Oxford and then at one of the German universities, where he came to know intimately the militaristic regime of pre-war Germany...
...bond of union among lecturers and other keen analysts of the world situation, is that the world is in a bas way. But of remedies there are as many as there are lectures. Excessive reading of books, high and dry prohibition, dancing, have all been set forth as the one sure method of saving the world from itself. The latest is by Mr. Glenn Frank, who thinks a sense of humor will do the trick...
...Author. Harvey O'Higgins is a man of 48, tall and slender, with keen, sensitive features and a quiet grey eye. He was born and educated in Canada, of British parentage. A legal career had originally been planned for him : but the lure of the pen led him into newspaper and magazine work which, in turn, took him to New York. The Youth's Companion was his first literary medium. His chief previous publications are Prom the Life, Some Distinguished Americans, The American Mind in Action, The Secret Springs...