Word: skepticism
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...season has turned for good. Rain has become the mild, innocuous shower bath that characterizes spring downpours, the baseball nines are in the field, the crews crowd the river, and the Vagabond has purchased a pair of vivid socks. Such indications are not to be scorneu, but the skeptic may definitely convince himself of the season by noticing his fellows during the lectures. Despite the best intentions, every eye wanders to the windows, attention follows the eyes, and then goes farther afield to the mountains, shore and great open spaces in general...
...again put forth one of the true delights of the theatrical season. They have taken a Spanish comedy, translated by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker, produced in London as long ago as 1920, and brought it to America in as feathery and fascinating a manner as the harshest skeptic could desire...
...Servant in the House. The long list of the season's revivals has finally included this old success of 18 years ago. It is a badly dated play about a butler who resembled and is symbolically identified with Christ. The shrewd skeptic of this inquiring day will say that the philosophy is obvious and behind the times. Even the most careless of steady theatre-goers will recognize the flagrant artificiality and the veteran creakiness of the structure. Walter Hampden gives his usual correct and melodious performance...
...tutorial system at Harvard is very much in the same position as a new baby. It has sufficient ugliness to make honest friends of the parents casual in their praise; it is sufficiently naked to allow real inspection by the skeptic who rather doubts the worth of babies as items in the sum total of pragmatic profit; and it is enough of a power, for all babies are autocrats, to make the older brothers and sisters worry about future fatted calves...
...delivers thumbnail diatribes on Normalcy, the Kaiser at Doom, the Foes of the League of Nations. More widely appealing will be the ex parte satires, which are very human and mellow indeed and written, as is the whole book, with notable artistic economy. These include: a Mystic, a Skeptic, and a suppressed Dyspeptic who called himself an Asthmatic; a Famous Author who Returned to the Primitive, enjoying both himself and the publicity; a nimble Ass and an Elephant, who grumbled "life is easier for the light-waisted...