Word: monolog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offers only such concrete examples as how semantics enabled him to cure himself of a fear of "snakes," such hypothetical examples as how it might keep a man from committing suicide. In the mind of the would-be suicide, suggests Chase, would occur a semantic Stop-Look-Listen! monolog like this: "This is bad; this is painful, depressing, almost intolerable. But my life, my organism, is a process, always changing ... no two contexts are tho same. . . . Snap out of it, brother, snap out of it! Prepare for the next context...
...Born Josephine Hancock, daughter of Chicago's famed Col. John Lane Hancock, elderly Mrs. Logan is not only an active art patron, an avid clubwoman, but a poet. She has written two books of verse. Lights and Shadows and Heights and Depths, and many lyrics including a Negro monolog entitled Longing...
...wife's death. In 1849 he visits Elmira, then a widow, but his attempt at a reunion fails because she believes he wants to start an ill-tempered magazine with her money. From beginning to end of the last scene, Actor Hull is required to utter a delirious monolog while he heaves and writhes on his deathbed and a nurse reads from the Bible...
Thus the "clutch" story of an impetuous bridegroom (Would You Marry a College Girl? Yes.) is prefaced with a little monolog about waiting for the delivery of a new automobile. The "differential" story of another young couple (Would You Marry A College Man? No.) begins with factory instructions on breaking in a new car, a theme whose smutty possibilities are as obvious as they are outworn. Some times Weller grinds his gears pretty badly in shifting from one tale to the next; sometimes the transitions are lightly made...
...BEACHCOMBER?William McFee? Donbleday, Doran ($2.50). Monolog by long-winded Chief Engineer Spenlove on the undistinguished career of Sidney Nevile, his professional and emotional difficulties...