Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eita Coventry was Julian Street's first novel. He waited until middle life to write it because he believes that balance and experience are necessary for the production of long fiction. Perhaps the first characteristic of this sane, pleasant gentleman is his belief in the absolute necessity for an author to regard his craft as something sacred and worthy of the greatest effort both in the de-velopment of an idea and the setting of it on paper. Mr. Street's short stories are many of them examples of the finest use of short fictional technique. They have...
...lays its dollar on the sill of the box-office. (For so modest and considerate is the price.) As obviously, the Guild cannot depend upon the ordinary playgoing public hereabouts. Otherwise, "regular" theatres would be housing "Ambush" and "March Hares" Little interested in so serious, sane, unselfish an undertaking are the highbrows by trademark. Encouragement in word, support in deed, must come from that younger public which would take its pleasure in the theatre, but would have that pleasure intelligent, candid, of life as it goes here and now. At the University that public is large, if careless. In every...
...orthodoxy was contained in a review by Lucia Fairchild Fuller, A. N. A. (painter), when Archipenko's cubistic statue of a soldier was shown in Manhattan in 1921: "The thing is worthless. Only a fundamental degeneration could have produced it, and it is an ominous sign when any sane human being finds it of interest...
...Perosi sane once more...
...Lorenzo Perosi sane...