Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scorn on the man who lay long abed, while Homer said, "It does not become a man of counsel to sleep the whole night." The University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall have time enough to sleep when...
...high beauty and real poetry. The scene between the Professor and his sister at the window of their cottage is nothing if not poetical, both in feeling and in the really important though subordinate matter of stage setting. And as regards stage setting. Mr. Arliss is not following the modern tendency towards simplification. His scenery follows the conventionally detailed tradition of Sardou and the French with their real books and real doors, and real latches...
...author is T. W. Robertson, the English dramatist, who is recognized as the founder of modern theatrical realism. "Caste," "society," "David Garrick" and "School" are other well-known plays by the same author...
...order to bring our standards of public morality into line with the needs of the age. We must be equally ready to learn lessons of history from the historian or lessons of experience from the man who has had practical experience of the devious ways and difficult problems of modern politics." --The Lawrentian...
...well-nigh hopeless. Yet we find that of the eighteen contributions to the current Advocate all but four are verses, and one of the four is an appreciation of Amy Lowell. And several of these are rather more than acceptable. This is hardly the place for a discussion of modern poetry, but such a situation cannot escape comment. How the times have changed!--or is it merely the result of a long and assiduous storing...