Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James E. Watson plays on the anti-Hoover team, whose hardest hitter in June may well be James E. Watson's good friend, Charles Gates Dawes. Therefore, James E. Watson, small of eye, large of stomach, quick of mind, comfortable of conscience, who can always get and has often accepted a political base on balls in Indiana, last week announced his Presidential candidacy. As he went to bat he made all the motions of a player who is going to knock it into the Presidential bleachers, making perfectly clear he was not just a Favorite...
...sensitive feelings of the artist are often given a cruel blow by the jibes of an unsympathetic critic. Having delivered himself upon the high altar of his art, to say nothing of the lucrative desk of defiled Mammon, the minor playright shudders at the crudity of those to whom it is not given to understand the scope of greatness. That criticism has constructive as well as destructive powers is forgotten by the mangled remains of budding genius forgotten also that there are standards which must be realized, a public that must be informed and protected...
Obviously the time is ripe for the advent of a new diplomacy. One might imagine, however, that this phenomenon if discovered, will probably be something infinitely old but in modern dress. Unfortunately the moralizing to which this problem is so often and so easily subjected is particularly ineffective. It is to be hoped that men in Mr. MacDonald's position and of his turn of mind will not forever be content with the mere discovery that the world is very much like the unfortunate but rather common individual who doesn't know what he wants and won't be happy...
...Playwright O'Neill re-introduced the aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult at first to grasp, soon blended into the engrossing total...
...seats to the Yale game, there seems to be no way of denying that a Stadium of 50,000 capacity is inadequate. Harvard's College graduates alone number some 25,000, and Yale's graduates must also be invited if Harvard's graduates are to see the games more often than every other year. This alone, when the undergraduates of the two institutions are included in the total, renders the present Stadium or even one with the open end closed, seating 50,000 or so, inadequate. Nor does there seem to be any good reason why graduates of the graduate...