Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Seldes's essay on "The Old Ideal" may fairly be taken as the manifesto of the reaction. Itself a paean in honor of tradition and the aristocratic ideal, it misses through a touch of petulance something of the repose it praises and something of fairness in attributing all the modern characteristics it censures to a socialism that has not yet come to pass. It would be a graceful acknowledgment of the soundness of the idea that the recent policy of the paper erred by over-emphasizing, if in the next number the editors found room for an essay...
...mise en scene of "Sumurun" is of a simplicity that rebukes our habitual elaborate settings, and the oriental atmosphere is reproduced with striking intensity. The actors attain a degree of effectiveness in characterization even of minor parts that is unique on our modern stage. Miss Konstantip excels in the portrayal of the passionate animal spirits of the slave-girl, while Mr. Orlofi, as the hunchback is peculiarly successful in showing his pathetic despair. Though "Sumurun" may invite the banal criticisms of a spasmodically moral censorship, it is the most distinguished play seen in Boston this year, and as an artistic...
...Modern Language Conference, Address on "The Development of Poetic Style in German," by Professor Walz, in Common Room, Conant Hall...
...Modern Language Conference. Address on "The Development of Poetic Style in German," by Professor Walz, in Common Room, Conant Hall...
Last day for receiving theses of candidates for the degree of Ph.D. in 1912 in the Divisions of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, and of History, Government and Economics...