Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drama, or else I am just different: I cannot see why after our first performance here in Boston they should cut the lines, and what choice bit they were, too! I do not mean to criticise the Boston audience at all, for contrary to most people's opinion. I find that it is very receptive. Maybe it is because there are so many students out there among the people. I always enjoy playing before students anyway. They seem to be so much livelier, and are not forever criticising an actress's nose for being a trifle too long or hereself...
...daily American press may be overexaggerated. Admitting the influence of a few crusading editors in the large cities and of a few local demagogues, it is doubtful if the average voter is swayed by his breakfasttable reading more than by red fire and hard cider. Constructive editorial opinion and advice on polities, at least those of national import, is offered by a minority of printed sheets. Dissection of a candidate or of an issue is left largely to the weekly magazines...
...magnitude of the political catastrophe resulting from the standardization of the press may be overdrawn, there is another more optimistic view of the situation. The general level of a universal standard for the national press would be kept higher by pressure of public opinion than the plane where much local journalism stands today. It is inconceivable that the tabloid sensationalism that washes down so many breakfasts now, or the pink and purple extravaganzas of Mr. Hearst should ever set the style for a nationwide press such as Mr. Villard imagines. If amalgamation will gloss over with a coat of standardized...
Considering how the situation might be remedied, he said that "If you insist on leaving tinder lying around you cannot tell who will strike the spark and set it off. It is our business to remove the tinder. This is the one question in which public opinion is important. We cannot sit by paralized and watch. There is a lack of government instrumentality; the Secretary of the Navy talks about armament, while Kellogg is ready to work internationally...
...Fifty per cent of the ability of the internationally known opera and concert singers in innate. The other half is acquired through good hard work, and application of the principles taught by master teachers." Such is the opinion of Marion Talley of the Metropolitan Opera Company, expressed in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall after her first public appearance in Boston...