Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Joseph Potter Cotton's "Social Subversion" throws a new and extremely clever light upon the "Summer Girl." The story is told in a series of characteristically bright letters written to a certain mutual friend. Possibly the best bit in any of the letters is the remark of Robert Farrar, who, speaking of his "fiancee," says that "she is able to transcend conversations without crashing through them." Cotton writes in his usual clear, suggestive style, and he draws the three characters with a charming distinctness and originality...
...long been a subject for remark that the College Musical clubs have abandoned representative college music for selections, usually rather classical, not calculated to arouse enthusiasm in the audiences at their public concerts...
...anecdote occurs to me. The last evening that Mr. Florence and I gave "The Rivals" together in New York, Mr. Florence suggested that we arrange our speeches. This I thought to be an excellent plan, and accordingly we prepared our little extemporaneous wit. He was to make some remark as if it had occurred to him for the first time, and I was to reply as if I had never heard it before. It was all very bright and funny. The actors assembled behind the scenes to hear us. The curtain went down, and we weren't called...
Professor de Sumichrast then gave an exhaustive description of the scenes of interest throughout the play, bringing out forcibly the truth of the remark with which he had prefaced the series of lectures, that of all modern nations none has shown a more dramatic instinct than the French in the Classical Drama of the Seventeenth Century...
...habit of talking in the library is becoming common enough to be a real nuisance. No one objects to an occasional remark or query, but it is most irritating to an alcove full of readers to have two men carry on a conversation of several minutes duration. Many men are guilty of the offense from mere thoughtlessness and generally have to suffer once or twice themselves before they realize what an annoyance they cause...