Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undergraduates who study, play bridge, and, theoretically, sleep in the Bow Street dormitories will feel a throb of sympathy at the news that the population of Park Avenue in New York is rising in revolt against a chime of bells recently installed in un uptown church. Just when the nurse gets the baby to sleep, five o'clock strikes with much metallic prelude; and by the time the miracle is once more accomplished, the chime strikes the quarter with such gusto that the child's temper is permanently ruined. There is a great deal of romance about bells...
...museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most active leader in the revolt against all this realism, by that dare-devil of the Russian drama Nicolai Nicolaevich Evreinov--or Yevreynoff, if that spelling gives you more of the thrill of the exotic and esoteric...
John St. Loe, Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, which is known as "England's most influential periodical," will tonight give an address in the Living Room of the Union. The London editor will be given as small dinner at the Union, and will afterwards talk on "Literary Revolt". Mr. Strachey's talk will start at 7.30 o'clock...
John St. Loe Strachey, prominent British journalist and editor, will speak at the Union on Friday night, it was announced late last night by the Union management. His topic has been tentatively set as "Literary Revolt". Technicalities of literary style will not figure prominently in Mr. Strachey's talk, according to present plans...
...However, now that I have gradually lulled my mind into a some what reminiscent mood, I do recall incidents which have come close to kindling the spark of revolt in my breast, because, you know, I was 'bawn in Kaintuckee and cawn-fed in Alabamy', and the Mason-Dixon line having always possessed for me the proportions of a veritable wall of China, I was prepared to be intensely critical, vibrantly sensitive, and susceptible to every influence brought to bear on me at Harvard. How faithfully I have fulfilled this vow remains to be seen...