Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, his first novel. The theme that the outward world is shaped by the needs and predilections of the inward mind is Proustian. So is Author Wilson's style, in which emotional complexities are explored in complex sentences. As the sensitive, completely sincere attempt of a metropolitan to wrest form from his muddled environment, the novel is valuable...
...occur. There has for a long time been at Yale a large body of opinion strongly favorable to this procedure and Mr. T. A. D. Jones, who was for many years the coach of the Yale football teams, is now writing a series of articles for one of the metropolitan papers in which he is discussing sympathetically this program...
...Metropolitan -- The Love Doctor (Dix); "Shanghai Jesters" Review. 11 to 11.30 o'clock. Reviewed in this issue...
...current offering at the Metropolitan, "The Love Doctor", is neither worse nor better than the ordinary run of Met pictures which is the same as saying that it provides mild entertainment of a very agreeable sort. Richard Dix as the hero, let it be said at once, is not half as bad as he can be, and in fact usually...
Such and many other quotations have filled the columns of the Metropolitan newspapers in the recent outbreak over the speech of President Angell before some 2500 students in Woolsey Hall, Thursday night. Perhaps more than any other one thing, it is an example of super-sensitive journalism with its ready eye for the unique detail or in this case the possible accusation...