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...finally there is that massive cerebral imperialist, Johannes Jensen. He is as Danish as Oehlenschlager himself; but he takes his Denmark with him wherever he goes. He is vehemently modern, fiercely adroit, lofty in exaltation, merciless in displeasure. He detests Memphis, Tenn...
Beyond the fact that this is its first public presentation in America, the play is of special interest because of the brilliant success of Andreyev's "He Who Gets Slapped" as produced last season by the New York Theatre Guild. The new play bears the same stamp of merciless, sardonic humor in a thoroughly Russian vein, such as distinguished the other play. It is a drama of five scenes and a prologue...
...Merciless publicity and widespread investigation can bring facts such as these to the attention of the community. If the matter is not pressed, however, the interest in the ex-soldiers troubles will rapidly die. For men in the University, there is one very simple means of assisting. At the meeting of the James A. Shannon Post of the American Legion, committee of law school students might well be appointed to aid men in hospitals near Boston in drawing up the various documents required by the War Risk Bureau. Another committee of student and faculty volunteers could be selected to bring...
...lazy in idleness. Every colonist was now made a small independent landholder. New and desirable immigrants began to arrive and the colony extended its limits. A very harsh code of laws was put into force. To the upright, Dale was a friend and helper; toward the depraved he was merciless. An alliance with the Indians was cemented by the romantic union of the princess Pocahontas and the young Englishman, John Rolfe...
...church, and lived his whole life as an inferior ecclesiastic. He was extremely poor, extremely proud, and exceedingly wroth at the wickedness of the world. His one work, "Piers the Ploughman" is a keen and daring satire on the state of society and religion in England, full of merciless sarcasm and incisive irony in the dissoluteness of the clergy and the vanity...