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...Potters. Though the word "boob" is rather an outworn colloquialism, it must be revived to designate the type lampooned by Playwright J. P. McEvoy. He has written a satire live with savage bristles, has hurled it full in the face of the great American boob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...material strings in us that vibrate with unreasonable animal regret. Pathos is material and animal always; it is a catch in the throat, a turning over of the heart--purely physical sympathy; and with this emotion Mr. Walpole moves us. But the plot of his story is too palpably outworn, and "The Enemy" fails of its full effect for this reason...

Author: By Theodore SPENCER G., | Title: VARIED COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES | 12/14/1923 | See Source »

...Dramatic Club a position of definite standing in the American theatrical world. If the plays selected up to date are open to the criticism of appealing more to an audience of a distinctly intellectual cast, they have at least most effectively preserved the club from falling into the banal outworn comedy type of organization so common in other universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST NIGHT | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...quick witted, but intellectually docile. They seem to be conscious conformists, utterly without that fierce sense of mental rebellion and the desire for intellectual freedom that characterizes the youth of Europe. They appear to be destitute of originality, and to be quite willing to subscribe whole-heartedly to the outworn theories of the older generation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVERS AND CRITICS | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

Feeling that the daily chapel services have outworn their usefulness, the Daily Dartmouth and the Beans, through their editorial columns, propose to substitute an open forum for the present morning service at Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH PAPERS WANT OPEN | 11/3/1923 | See Source »

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