Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace on Earth (by George Sklar and Albert Maltz; produced by the Theatre Union) is another clumsy propaganda play dedicated to the proposition that capitalism is a shell game. Its authors, Yalemen, take a mild, busy college professor (Robert Keith) as their representative of the Right. They persuade him a little toward the Left, involve him with stevedores striking against War, with Communists, with a radical friend who is murdered by the Interests. Tarred with the Left brush, he is crushed by his onetime comrades of the Right. His college classmates, holding a reunion, dress as cowboys, get drunk, mumble...
...broad and general reforms suggested by Italy will only make the League a mild moral force with the membership of the United States still most dubious. It now seems obvious that the world has not yet reached the stage for international government. Until it does reach that stage, such reforms would only preserve a sentiment and a symbol that may later be made a concrete organ of international government...
...Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air." Every reader of James Joyce's famed Ulysses* will recognize this opening passage. But many Ulysses readers are not aware that Malachi ("Buck") Mulligan represents a real person, with other claims to fame besides being a minor character in Joyce's Dublin epic. Renowned as "the wildest wit in Ireland." a doctor, a Senator, an air pilot. Oliver St. John Gogarty...
Three weeks ago Arnold Schönberg landed in the U. S., surprised everyone by being a shy, mild little man not a bit fierce or radical in his comments on music or German politics. This week Schönberg classes began in Boston and New York. Paying pupils were few. Some 50 would-be composers had sent in scores, hoping to win scholarships offered by Stokowski, George Gershwin, Mrs. A. Lincoln Filene of Boston and the Steinway and Knabe Piano Companies. But if it was impossible to prophesy what importance Schönberg would have as a teacher...
...Chamber of Deputies, distinguished scientist; after long illness; in Paris. Son of a Parisian baker, he won attention at home and abroad with discoveries in algebra, mechanics, astronomy, became professor at the Sorbonne. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1906, he drifted toward the Left as a mild radical. As Minister of War in 1917 he welcomed the U. S. forces to France; as Premier he appointed the late Ferdinand Foch to the Supreme Allied War Council...