Word: moods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stephen Leacock in a semi-serious mood has looked askance at the present-day rush to the colleges as a too evident victory for the spirit of "go-getting" in American life. He thinks the desire to make more money is at the bottom of increased college attendance, and he doesn't like the tendency...
These sets are designed to be in keeping with the trend toward the bizarre and the impressionistic in the modern drama. They make no attempt at realism, They, like the play, are indicative of a mood rather than of an action, and to this, they supply an adequate background. Scenery of this type proved effective in the recent Broadway production of John Howard Lawson's "Processional...
...Then the hours, the final hours, that shall make incandescent this choral virtue, these songful freedoms, that musical understanding, such stir and mood already a-beat and aglow. Dr. Davison began them; Mr. Koussevitsky finished them. The audience sat in away and thrall to the power and the beauty so engendered...
...faults were grave and they were faults of both mood and tense. In his childhood, he had suffered an incurable injury to his back which doubtless accounted for much of his irascibility. On the other hand, he was often tactless to a degree, pompous in his bearing, quick to give and take offense and often almost boorish in his treatment of inferiors. His passion was imperialism and no toe, no matter to whom it belonged, escaped his heel if its owner got in the way of his policy. Few men were a match for him in withering invective; none surpassed...
After putting on a play with a considerable amount of delicate charm, the Boston Stock Company pursues this week a higher and more widely popular vein, "Rolling Home" is just another comedy that will make people laugh if they are in the right mood for laughter, and will bore them if they are feeling tired. Such things as "Rolling Home" are written because most audiences crave amusement--they want to do their weeping somewhere else...