Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speaking further of the character of the plays, Mr. Rains said, "One of the most striking features of the plays is is that, though twenty-three centries old, they are essentially modern in their character--a fact brought out by "Trojan Women" which has been called the strongest plea against war ever written. It depicts the effect of war upon four women, Hecuba, Andromache, Helen, and Cassandra, who have had their homes destroyed and are being led away into captivity. The whole play is aimed as a protest against the conditions of strife in Greece due to the Peloponnesian...
...would not be diletanti we are thus of necessity specialists. No modern system of distribution denies this. It attempts instead of counteract the consequent but inevitable danger of narrowness (which Mr. Burke quite properly emphasizes) by insuring the student against intolerant ignorance of other fields than his own, and by insisting on breadth of culture as the best basis for concentration. But if Mr. Burke's hypothetical undergraduate, with his atrophied power of choice, necessitates nothing less than a complete retraction of elective ideals, rather than the retention of their best elements in a synthetic reform, the whole problem...
...outstanding characteristic of modern civilization is the ever increasing use of the intensive scientific method; while the most striking single feature of the present war is the universal vagueness as to the issues involved and the amateurish nature of discussion as to the means of settlement...
...unrivalled realism in character drawing. It is due to the understanding and sincerity with which Granville Barker reproduces the Greek setting, with which Sir Gilbert Murray reproduces the Greek ideas, and Professor Smith, the Greek sense for rhythm and choral chanting in his music for the odes, that the modern audience can feel that they are receiving the same thrills which stirred Hellenistic listeners...
...Modern Language Conference, "Walter Map: De Nugis Curialium," by Mr. James Hinton, and "The Medieval Legend of Judas Iscariot," by Mr. P. T. Baum, in Conant Common Room...