Word: patching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climax to the handsome young Irishman's career. . . . Covent Garden is some shucks over there, but the Palace is a more important theatre, for it is the high peak of an avenue of art that radiates over the whole world, while opera is a narrow, limited, circumscribed old patch, like one of the Balkan States-it's great .to write about and lie about but it doesn't affect anything much...
What looks to be a patch of blue sky is visible through the clouded outlook of the American stage in the plans already under way to form a National Theatre. Fifty-six representative theatre directors and producers have organized in New York to put the scheme into effect and their first effort is about to be launched. Their main purpose is to build up a last ditch defence in the losing battle of the legitimate stage, outside of the four or five largest cities, against the advance of the "movies...
...story, much of which would make good material for Eugene O'Neill at his bitterest, tells of the moral disintegration of Anthony Patch, and his wife Gloria. Anthony is our old friend Amory Blaine, now made for the sake of variety a Harvard man. Whether or not it is because of a change of Alma Mater, he is a little more consistently worthless than his Princeton prototype but otherwise he is the same. A good part of the novel is devoted to analyzing his character but for all this it seems to us that if Mr. Fitzgerald had described...
This is the situation of Anthony Patch and, as it is to be expected his story is one of a rapid descent from a position in which he keeps within most of the bounds of convention through lack of daring or leisure to transgress to a position in which, with a very unconvincing attitude of insouciance, he has given up every pretense of being more than a beast...
...best be left to each individual to be solved by himself according to his own lights. The individual Jew, as a rule, will try to save as much as he can of his tradition in his adjustment to life; he will temporize, he will compromise, he will somehow patch up differences, for it is essentially in the illogic of life that the individual finds a satisfactory solution for his difficulties. But for the race as a whole there can be no temporizing, no compromising, no half measures; it is either to exist or to cease to exist. If the race...