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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search for the educational Grail is ever-present. Prompted by foreign decision and the realization that American methods have not yet attained a satisfactory degree of perfection, educators are constantly striving to improve native processes and standards. All plans are worth the attempt, but emphasis should not be placed on those that are for the most part peripheral. To imbibe and understand foreign manners and customs a protracted residence abroad is essential, for the merely casual intercourse with the scattered cross-sections to be found in this country results in a superficial knowledge at best. However, if the fundamental elements...
...steady sequence, has many a U. S. community suffered the pangs of Bank Failures, of cash tied up, of prominent citizens suddenly under suspicion. Fear has followed Faith; Tragedy stalked Prosperity. To tell of each failure would be impossible. To fail to search beyond the weekly figures of failures would be to miss the true social significance of the Depression...
...lecture on "Contemporary Literature in Italy." Averardi intends to deal particularly with the brilliant Italian dramatist. Luigi Pirandello, whose play, "Six Characters in Search of an Author" was very popular several years ago and who has several plays scheduled for the current theatrical season in New York...
...minutes of audible self examination to discover that she really is in love with her cowboy, when the audience knew about it all along. As a rule there is nothing offensive about the play, it's just dull; but there is one scene which is inexcusable. Riggs, in his search for realism, paints with a broad brush. It's an old western custom to give a chivivari to an engaged couple. In accordance with tradition Miss Walker, in a night gown, together with her betrothed, is placed upon a haystack to endure with the audience ten minutes of as vulgar...
...rule worshippers are more willing than ministers to cooperate in federations. The clergy "are afraid of the warm-hearted irresponsibility of their lay constituents-perhaps also of their own better natures." It was to ferret out the cause of denominational failure to cooperate that Mr. Douglass made his search into antipathies. Besides discovering the above scale of Protestant general aversions, he found that Protestants would just as soon marry Roman Catholics as Jews, but preferred Jewish or Catholic spouses to Mormons, atheists, Buddhists or Mohammedans. However, they would rather marry atheists than aliens...