Word: mathiez
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...play, whether serious or satirical, which affirms that man has bestial tendencies merely states a truism if the production is poor. On the program of Oh What A Lovely War are quotations denouncing war from such diverse men as Mathiez and MacArthur, giving credence to the assertion that it is only a propaganda piece embellished by slick staging. As such it pales in comparison to The Rabbit Race which is more caustic and convincing by treating fresh characters, not tired caricatures...
...obstacle remains for the blissful couple--Prof. Mathiez ("a feather from the left wing"). Oozing onto the stage he exclaims, "You have nothing to lose but your brains--I mean chains." His threat is mitigated when it is revealed that he is really the father of Grendel, i.e. Grendel's mother's ("mother of Grendel, an anti-social type") husband. Charisma and Beowulf then sing of the joyous life they will have together as the defeated Mathiez writhes in the corner: "We'll just be petty bourgeoisl...
...produced. Marshall Moriarty as Weber coughed exceedingly well, and Emilie Rahman as his daughter was enticing. Reckford, as Hobbes; Charles Bevard as Locke, and Judd Conway as Rousseau were properly raucous. Jack Henrikson made a bellowing Beowulf; Mary Doyle, a grucsome Grendel's mother; and Alan Horsley, a mushy Mathiez...
...great French historian and radical Mathiez once said to Harold Laski, a Communist member of the Harvard faculty, 'You sympathize with liberalism. Why do you stay in such a capitalistic hole as Harvard? Why don't you go West, where the colleges are really liberal?' The opinion of Mathiez, who had never been outside of France, is hardly supported by the insistence of Harvard's faculty on academic freedom. Of course it is impossible to conceive of a professional agitator on the faculty of any college. One can't expect an institution founded by capitalists on a capitalistic order...
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