Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latin countries we have the best opportunities for observing contrasts. Dominated for centuries by the arbitrary dogmas of wealth, church and state, the Latin-American mind gets nowhere, invents nothing and is fearful of every new and original idea and there is a very considerable mental stratum in the U. S. A. that functions on the same plane...
...that with the assurance of being admitted, they may spend their last year at school more profitably than heretofore. Relieved of the necessity of cramming for college board examinations, they can survey the fields that lie beyond their schoolboy courses, and can learn to think farther ahead towards their mental fulfillment than tomorrow's recitation. Further, they can prepare themselves in language requirements so as to avoid compulsory language courses in their freshman year...
...Today-in mental sackcloth and spiritual ashes-I am forced to concede that I was duped. . . . Mrs. Harding knew nothing whatever at any time about Nan Britton or her child. . . . Nan Britton's child is not the child of President Harding. That is my opinion [but] I cannot prove...
...keep the public informed concerning the trend of affairs, too much. Front page stories detail bank failures, unemployment, and other indications of industrial distress. While the known value of such stories in good, there is doubtful benefit for the general morale. The financially depressed public is hurried deeper into mental despair by such emphasis on its woos. It in becoming tired of being aroused by journalistic cries of wolf at each false down of prosperity...
Significant is the O'Neill treatment of the theme: simple, straightforward. Spectators who came expecting asides, theatrical tricks such as those employed in Strange Interlude were disappointed. Spectators who hoped to see an elaborate job of mental vivisection, such as Playwright O'Neill displayed in Strange Interlude, were disappointed, too. Prime point of criticism of Mourning Becomes Electra is its bareness. Six hours is a long time to have to sit and watch a family obliterate itself, motivated by unrelieved hatred and lust...