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...which we can thumb. The play is too rapid a frolic for that. And its plot is a bewildering melange of characters and incidents, as episodic carnival rather than a blunt sequence of cause and effect. We encounter no sex problems, no ouija jigglings; Moraleda is Medford, Mass.; or Spoon River before it became a cemetery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAY-GOER | 5/20/1920 | See Source »

...Spoon River Poems, Edgar Lee Masters asks whether personal liberty means liberty of the mind or of the belly. If he had been on Boston Common yesterday his respect for the belly would have considerably increased. Fifty thousand souls yelled themselves hoarse against "the trick of a minority," a Boston Tea Party on a large scale was planned for the evening of June 30th, signs were displayed such as "First our beer, then our tobacco and then --" and "We fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza." Whether prohibition be good or not the reaction against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ARISE YE PRISONERS OF THIRST." | 4/8/1919 | See Source »

...discover what Harvard University is, but not sorry for that fellow who comes here from far off, and feels out of place and awkward, but who does the real thinking, dreams the dreams which have changed the face of the whole world." He said he was sorry for the "spoon fed" fellow who has been "tucked into bed by his intellectual friends" and enjoyed the society of a boarding school. They come into the luxury of the "sideshow," the Freshman Dormitories, and do not see the real side of college life. He said that men should try to feel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN HEARD BLISS PERRY | 10/2/1917 | See Source »

...author unfortunately at first sets an apparently older tone. There is entertainment also in Percival Reniers '16's article, "Speaking of Trifles," where his potpourri of forced daily themes resembles a theme corrector's nightmare. Of the prose pastels, "Charity" too obviously allies itself in subject and manner to Spoon River...

Author: By P. W. Long ., | Title: Key Note of Monthly Evanescence | 12/6/1916 | See Source »

...Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount of conventionally correct verse, with one piece, "Escaped," by Mr. W. A. Norris, that is more individual and distinguished than the rest. Even Mr. Cowley's vers libre is conventional according to the standards of "Spoon River...

Author: By G. H. Maynadier ., | Title: Current Advocate Not "High Brow" | 3/31/1916 | See Source »

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