Word: questionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no absolute to which the question of morality in the drama can be referred. Overacting joined to broad dialogue may be offensive to public taste, but theatre-goers are less impressionable than they were, and the effective powers of a play have been exaggerated. Where possibility of offense is confined to isolated lines of dialogue, sweeping censorship argues high susceptibility on the part of the audience which would view the performance. Why the audiences of "Fiesta" should be more receptive than those which attend shows in other parts of the city is problematical...
Acknowledging the full legitimacy of the headline appeal, one may yet question the happiness of the selection that gave it birth. The growing impetus of the sensationalist movement has reached its logical goal. There are many who while condemning the course taken by what had become inevitable action, still regret the policy which has given that action its excuse...
...possible solution was discussed. The final conclusion was reached in a compromise when I resigned after the committee had acknowledged me as chairman. This compromise was accepted by the entire committee. I should like to have it understood by the members of the class of 1929, that the original question of principle remains undecided...
...stock farce and melodrama and the self-conscious radicalism that leaves its seats all empty. When Winthrop Ames took Arthur Schwitzler's "Anatol" over the censorship hurdles same years ago, he beat the Foley of that day by enough so that you needn't go to settle that question. One regrets that the Experimental Theatre throws away a chance to make an honest experiment. Go, if you like to sit in a little theatre which was once a barn, half of whose seats are the benches that nested a million commuters in the old North Station. Edward P. Goodnow...
...creation of a new specialized class in baseball brings the question around to the viewpoint of the spectator, from whose grandstand Mr. Heydler took one look at the problem. Half the nervous thrill of baseball comes when "the weak end of the order" comes to bat in a rally two runners on base, two out, the score in a ticklish position, and the pitcher up. How many in the bleachers would substitute invariably for the trembling of the game in the chances of a weak hitter or a pinch-hitter entering cold, the placid content in the assurance that Casey...