Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comparatively comic parody of popular plays (The Trials and Tribulations of Mary Dugan, The Violent House...
There is no logic included in The Greenwich Village Follies; it should be popular on warm nights, among light-minded playgoers...
...Bahamas with the news that sharks are harmless. According to Mr. Heilner, he exposed himself to these much-maligned creatures repeatedly without their showing the least interest in him as a possible article of diet. It is to be feared, however, that even before such evidence the popular mind will cling to its delusion. Generations of South Sea Island movies in which a struggle between the hero and a shark is a prominent feature cannot but have their effect, and few frequenters of our bathing beaches will feel inclined to imitate Mr. Heilner's experiments if anything resembling a shark...
...operation, the requirements of a major course of study produce an entirely different result. The case of English, the most popular subject for the major study, and the most striking example of disorganization, is worth consideration. A Freshman course takes the student over a few high spots in literature which include entirely distinct and separate introductions to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Ruskin and a few others, studied without reference to their relative importance or period. The student may at his option, follow this by a slightly more coherent Sophomore course in which he begins the process over again, landing...
...rare presidential year which does not bring to this country a whole crop of favorite sons, slogans, graft and corruption, and popular histories of the two major political parties. The Century Company is therefore very much in step with the times in issuing some 1000 pages, profusely illustrated, for the further education of the men in the street who will soon--at least a small percentage of them--play the role of citizens...