Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fixed quantity, so far as box-office success is concerned. Those whose tastes incline to the classic will patronize it, and not quite succeed in filling all the seats,--everyone else will automatically stay away. This is unfortunate in the case of "The School for Scandal", for as sheer entertainment, all hobbledehoy about art and the higher drama aside, it is probably the best play now showing in Boston. If the theatregoing public would only view it with the same open-mindedness given the latest New York success, it would probably outstrip four out of five of its competitors...
LIFE BEGINS TOMORROW-Guide de Verona (Translated by Isabel Grazebrook) - Button $2.00). The emotional and stylistic tumult of this book will quite dismay the normal reader. It is an attempt to plumb terrific abysses, to scale sheer pinnacles of human nature; and the author, dizzied by exertion, indulges a hot Latin temperament to inartistic excess. With strong physiologic emphasis, the story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life...
Football, like business, is seldom pursued for its own sake. As a prominent halfback once said: "I don't run back punts for my health." It is not for amusement that the Harvard squad charges and blocks and tackles all afternoon, and it is not for sheer love of sport that they are now getting ready to grind through signal practice by artificial light. In fact, all this practicing is mighty hard work; ever so much more work than brain work. There is a malicious popular belief that football players are not naturally inclined toward brain work. This is unfair...
...wildest contrast to Chamberlain is Chesterton, who by sheer literary force has taken the position in London created in the 18th Century by Dr. Johnson and left vacant at his death until the ascension of G. K. C. . . . To make Chesterton Lord Rector of Glasgow would be at the lowest a great lark...
ALONG THE ROAD?Aldous Huxley?Doran ($2.00). Not a very satisfying book unless you are either a passionate pilgrim or a fervent admirer of the sheer literary skill of slender, drooping, cynical Mr. Huxley. Here he is less cynical than usual, for he is traveling, enjoying himself, not trying particularly to be clever. In Rotterdam, Mantua, Siena, Munich, Monte Carlo, he idly employs his notebook to jot notes which will keep his warm coat of culture sleek and glossy. He takes the usual liberties?writing about his spectacles, the books he takes, Why Not Stay Home, etc.?but still...