Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished visiting educators of last week were hoping to hear things of good repute about the ministry, they were partially mistaken: "The intellectual level of the ministry of our American churches is pathetically low. Recent controversies could hardly have arisen had our pulpits beer filled with men abreast of current thought and seriously teaching then people. The number of college professors and leaders in the professions who show no interest ir the Church is an alarming sign of the inability of our clergy to grip the minds and stir the imaginations of many of our educated people. A rift between...
Last week, Dr. Stokowski issued a statement: ... "I now see clearly that until we can have the necessary equipment of an especially constructed stage, no progress can be made. . . . The necessary stage arrangements for sinking the orchestra to a lower level. . . and invisible, do not exist in present concert halls. . . . This is the ideal I am working for. Will anyone help me to attain...
Rollins possesses a wise president. He realizes that by refusing to promote the growth of the school he will be establishing its level. Let the large universities care for those who desire a cosmopolitan atmosphere or a specialized education. The others--those whose object is to get a liberal arts background sufficient to enable them to boast of a certain amount of culture, have an ideal haven in the small college, such as Dr. Holt proposes. Nor is it any shame to them that they do not care to go further than the outlines and the shell of education...
...trivial vehicle, reinforced by capable support from the actors; there is no high level of credibility, and the lines are not sparkling. Accept it as a play of situation, and recognize that no mental effort is necessary. Take your Princeton friends, they'll like it, even if they pan the Southern accent of the cast...
...Midge, average U. S. citizen. Though many have essayed to deal out Menckian blows this season, nothing on the current stage satirizes so incisively, originally, the cruel banalities of "big business, gogetters" as does this play about a man who is stuck for life at the assistant sales-manager level of a greeting card manufactory. At a "Father and Son" luncheon, the Reverend Harold Klump, "he-Christian," sounds the keynote of large-scale production as applied to the spiritual side of life. He will get men into his church if he has to run prize fights in the pulpit, foot...