Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The third play, "The Blind", by Maurice Maeterlinck, is remarkable for the dominating note of fear expressed by the twelve blind men and women who are lost in a wood. Then, as evening comes and the chill of night fills the wood, not only the players seem chilled by the...
The world-wide airing of the Lansing-Wilson grievances at a time too late for political effect and too early to secure impartial judgment, may satisfy the avidity of certain irreconcilables, but it neither settles controversy or redounds to the credit of the country; this spectacle of a President riding...
For it his most concrete loyalty here is to the group smaller than the University it is nevertheless a group colored in us thought by the centuries-old tradition of the University. And that, at least, is one factor of permanency. And if he feels that as a Harvard man...
The trouble with this round-about method of checking corruption and waste is that it offers a temptation to those of our newspapers who prefer to create excitement rather than to publish facts. No sooner is a committee formed to probe affairs of public interest than the newspapers prepare for...
It is doubtful whether this juggling with the supernatural in "One" has not gone just a bit too far. The daring treatment of the theme results here in a sacrifice of plausibility to uniqueness--for the plot is certainly unique if nothing else. The ordinary mortal has no difficulty in...