Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern colleges, Dr. Wilbur's point may be well made, although here too the same objection holds. It is certainly true that Eastern institutions, as he states, draw their students from a group of preparatory schools whose typical product remains essentially unchanged; but Dr. Wilbur has taken no notice of the large numbers of high school graduates who form the vast majority of all college groups, and whose mentalities must be at least as varied as those of the general population of the region from which they come...
Exiles. James Joyce is the extraordinary Irishman who wrote Ulysses and gained a position unique in English literature. Exiles is his only play, an uncommercial product which the Neighborhood Players made more uncommercial by a considerable supply of inept acting. The play itself is a rigorous psychological study of four Irish people. The wife loves the husband's friend; the husband has his own affinity. Yet they love each other and sit down to have the whole thing out. Most humans would have grabbed each other and tired of the affair before Joyce's characters stop talking about it. They...
...when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had?you would think that she could sit down at a typewriter and dash off a novel as a reporter accomplishes an assignment...
...issue is not of changing the cheer, but of securing a maximum of volume and rhythm in the present cheer. A system of competition is to be established. But the crowd at a game is singularly averse to experiments in cheering, since vocal enthusiasm is only a by-product of interest in the game; and "chamber-expositions" of cheering are hardly a satisfactory test of merit in the field. Any group of vigorous and agile young men, who attack the problem with sufficient intelligence, numbers, and zest, can swing a favorable crowd into their own enthusiasm. The present corps...
...Empire has passed into history. It has disappeared, not only geographically and politically but it no longer exists as a moral entity, justifying the conception of the 'Sick Man of Europe,' an eternal problem and source of trouble for the world. "The new Turkish Republic is the product of a radical transformation and vast reforms, abolition of the Califate separation of the State from religion, unification of education, etc., reforms which only a few years ago the world thought Turkey utterly incapable of achieving. "The new mentality of Turkey may be summed up in a few words-jealous...