Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their traveling expenses, so much the better. As long as an alien lives peaceably in our country, obeying laws that most people believe are just, he should be urged to remain. But when he says that unless we let him make our country over according to the Bolshevik pattern, he will leave us to our bourgeois fate, he should be informed that nobody wants to keep him here for a moment; and he should be shown the shortest way to that land whose freedom and beauties he extolls so highly through the medium of the playful bomb and festive pistol...
...certain sureness and aptness in dealing with a topic not too macabre to lie within the writer's power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle Age," by Percival Reniers, has a poignant virtue as a "lesson for fathers," who in turn should impart to the rising generation of writers some of the distinctions between will and shall...
...Flint. Not content with writing six words as six different lines and sprawling them across the page at a downward angle of 45 degrees. Mr. Sanborn has given us lines made up of such monosyllables as "and", "up", "or," etc. And so seldom do we find any rhythmic pattern of even the "freest" kind that we are startled when it accidentally puts in an appearance. This is indeed "shredded prose...
...afternoon. In his talk he emphasized the need of plasticity in the college actor, pointing out the tendency of amateur actors to simply learn the lines of the author, and neglecting to correctly impersonate the character. The college actor should remember that he is merely a color in a pattern, a part of a "stock company", not a star of the evening. Professor baker stated that the only way to build up a role is to study stage directions as well as lines. The actor must act emotionally as well as with his mind, must study every aspect...
...verse Mr. Cumming's "Nocturne" appeals through its intricate pattern and decoration, inducing a mood and sense of beauty, but lacking the truth to emotional experience achieved in Mr. Hillyer's "Night on the Mountain." The latter, though defective in rhyme, fails chiefly in the introduction of "death," and the last line, which escapes anticlimax by false hyperbole. The psychology of Tapolo, "contented" with a clear night while praying for rain, defies analysis. Much better is the heavily alliterative rendering from Tolstoi by Mr. Garland. Its last lines, however, leave the point insufficiently clear, while such phraseology as "wended their...