Word: scene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indulge in parades and other pleasant diversions. The youngest generations wait for the last of the yearly series to come into their own. To be sure, they seize upon such opportunities as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, with sufficient alacrity, but their parents always dominate the scene with the dignity of "We do solemnly proclaim edicts and displays of eloquence that serve to remind forgetful citizens of what a capable fellow their mayor really...
...except indirectly; but that does not explain the clouds in Europe. The visions of suffering are short-lived. The jealousy of patriotism is enduring. A new generation kneels to receive its inheritance, and is still too unsophisticated to toss aside, the spoiled portions of it. This is a perfect scene for the cynic, in all points but one; it is too genuinely pitiful...
...suspect that Philip Goodman who ... is ... expert at the consumption of food . . . must have interfered with the direction of Rainbow ... I shall not be astonished if I learn that the long wait after the second scene was due to his efforts to be helpful ... I suggest that Mr. Stallings and Mr. Hammerstein persuade Mr. Goodman to go to Italy for a month and fill himself with food so that he may fall into a torpor. . . . They must get Mr. Goodman eating or their play will collapse'. ... A sharp pruning knife. however, especially if Mr. Goodman can be sent...
Whether or not they are content with the human scene, readers of On My Way will find "that c'toonist's" informal record of his own mountain-shiftings a merry masterpiece of shirt-sleeve autobiography, sketched by a pen that achieves with words the same quaint economy for which its line is famed...
...both these emotions in Art Young is the world, not himself. About the latter he entertains chiefly a healthy curiosity, a self-respecting skepticism. Like most artists, he finds the money thing the most troublesome, but like few he has learned this general truth: "Nature never composes a scene just right for an artist. Even a mountain must be shifted to one side...