Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After hours of preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when...
...State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner of the stage, while his memory of an Atlantic City bathing beauty may be enacted in another corner. His daughter may black-bottom on an upper level and his wife receive a weird, bearded, hypnotic lover on still another. By proper punctuation and emphasis, such a production may be made colorful, clear, rapid, nervous, like jazz music. But, though the new playwrights deserve credit for the enterprise, Mr. Lawson's "farce" fails to enthrall the observer, because: 1) The lines are not pointed artfully enough to evoke...
...LOVER-Richard Connell-Minion, Batch ($2). Be not dismayed if you hear that this book deals with the spendthrift son of an Irish-American pioneer in a city with slums and polo, like Toledo. Author Connell writes books on transatlantic steamers and French park benches. He knows no more about sons of Irish-American pioneers than he does about Mongolian law or any other dull literary subject. Author Connell is an Irish poet who was made cheerful by being born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. With no sorrows of Deirdre for ballast, his fancy flies off on such tangents...
Thoreau, however, was not a naturalist in the scientific sense; he was a lover of nature, free from the shackles of pedantry...
...story.* The Alps, if they could, would have snickered in 1796 at a shaggy-haired, large-skulled, short youth of 27 with a tatterdemalion army at his back. He was part failure, part lover, part dangerous...