Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week it was announced that Liberty bell will ring out across the land, its mellow notes carried by radio, ringing in the New Year, 1926, the 150th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence...
...traveler from Italy bores upward into Switzerland through the great Mount Cenis tunnel, he comes upon a land where peace seems a foregone conclusion from the sheer stillness of its lakes and the immobile vastness of its mountains. There the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations is appropriately found in that most peaceful of Swiss cities, Geneva. Exotic female visitors by the dozen, score and million cry out, "How perfect!" and the slightly world-weary assistants of Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League since its inception respond, "How dull...
Psychology, neuroses, fixations. complexes and all the rest hava become so firmly fixed in the dinner conversation of the land that the play will be easily understood. These peculiar phenomena are dealt with in words of one syllable. An event in the hero's youth bites deep into his consciousness, is discovered and the poison let off in the approved modern fashion at the last...
...show in the language of the theatre that such a mission can be achieved by the theatre and to accomplish his purpose Evreinov has emphasized a very subtle and at times tantalizing technique. While the play supposedly takes place in Russia actually it takes place somewhere on the border land between reality and unreality. It is a will-o'-the wisp sort of a play eluding our grasp just at the moment we attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds rushing over it, now hiding it completely...
...hail the Anti-Fanatic League! May it prosper and grow fat throughout the land where intolerance is still measured in terms of "difference from...