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...agree with Mr. Wilson that "Rip Van Winkle" should be revived. It is an interesting adaption of Irving's folk lore classic and it has a charm and mellow homeliness which are found nowhere else with just this flavor. Despite its imperfect dramatic qualities, "Rip Van Winkle" is a delightful play with a wealth of beautiful and quaint effects--a play to be seen and a play long to be cherished in the memory
Hatred, Marriage under False Pretenses, in the round old-fashioned way. He assumes embattled political moods and delivers thumbnail diatribes on Normalcy, the Kaiser at Doom, the Foes of the League of Nations. More widely appealing will be the ex parte satires, which are very human and mellow indeed and written, as is the whole book, with notable artistic economy. These include: a Mystic, a Skeptic, and a suppressed Dyspeptic who called himself an Asthmatic; a Famous Author who Returned to the Primitive, enjoying both himself and the publicity; a nimble Ass and an Elephant, who grumbled "life is easier...
Positive Elements: Graceful, dignified, modest, gentle, cultured, efficient speaker (pleasing, clear, mellow voice), refined language, jolly, sociable, congenial, cooperative, loyal, teachable, forgiving, hearty eater, thrifty, careful in business matters, optimist, religious, reverent, prayerful, devout, spiritual, pure-minded, faithful in religious observance, Bible student, good moral and religious influence, patriotic...
...gentleman's son, Lincoln Ellsworth, had flown with Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway a fortnight before (TIME, June 1). The father had made their flight possible with a purse of $100,000 after twice discountenancing the adventure and urging his son to rest with him in the mellow ease and quiet of old-world culture with which he had surrounded himself. Now, dying, he pondered his surrender, weighed the dangers over and over, longed for news?but passed without hearing...
...College (Brunswick), in celebration of the centenary of the graduations of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Institute of Modern Literature last week burgeoned forth, with a specialist on every branch and juicy speech-fruit for all the world to cull from the press. In Bowdoin's mellow Memorial Hall, the first to speak was Poet Robert Frost. He read Longfellow's Flight Into Egypt, dwelt a while on his own favorite theme of "vocal imagination" -"Longfellow, you see," said Poet Frost, "used no figures of speech. Our poets today, a lot of them, are metaphor-crackers...