Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although each House cannot have its own Widener, the libraries ought to be supplied with a minimum of books in all departments. A distinct lack in any subject would be unfair to men concentrating in that field. There is, however, no reason to expect a complete duplication of books among the Houses. Through gifts or through special interest of its staff in some subject, each House may very possibly build up an unusually good collection in some field...
...become too consciously poetic, so might the dramatic reality be said to tend toward the literary only, so can the painstaking dialogue become a trifle clotting. However, without caviling over critical straws, there is much in this book for those who believe that realism does not necessarily mean a lack of imagination, that humanity is only as barren as those who observe it. For these, and for any who like a good story, there is beauty and reality in "Three Steeples," and perhaps also a part answer to "Main Street" and the often shallow photography of Sinclair Lewis...
...Testament of a Critic" Mr. Nathan is the same devastating gentleman that has paraded himself in dramatic columns for the past quarter century. He has been accused of being a columnist with false pretensions to wit and of being a dramatic critic with an utter lack of dramatic appreciation. Such attacks, however, have very little effect on Mr. Nathan whose self complacence seems to grow the harder it is buffetted. On the surface his criticism is clever and thin, but after a more careful consideration of his longer works the cleverness becomes keenness and what seemed superficiality is really cogency...
...city that smother the Boston stage. With two exceptions, the public press of the city is concerned with the theatre only as an advertising agent. The healthy atmosphere of interested and intelligent criticism that lends interest to the stage in other cities of similar size is entirely lacking here. This fact, along with unintelligent censorship and a general lack of a real theatrical interest on the part of the public almost justifies the statement that Boston gets only what it deserves...
Many schools, in reaction to the traditional rigidity of education, have made complete freedom for individual expression their guiding principle and this freedom has proved especially profitable for children of outstanding talent. A similar plan in New York would give gifted pupils an opportunity which they now lack, to develop their capacities...