Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last of these the spotlight of unpleasant publicity last week centered. It was discovered that this association was headed by one A. Moulton Pettey, an income tax auditor in the Treasury, and that its drive for funds was headed by a professional promoter, one A. Winslow Lowell, working on commission. It appeared further that Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and close friends believed that the enterprise would be a failure and left the project strictly alone, although saying nothing. Mr. Pettey did not know Mr. Wilson, had never met him, but once (as a stenographer) had taken down a speech he made...
...Manhattan. Having opened splendidly with La Gioconda (during which the spotlight played quite properly upon the boxholders instead of the stars), the Metropolitan (TIME, Nov. 2) went on with its season. Maria Jeritza as Tosca, lying in a lovely heap upon the floor of Scarpia's apartments, delivered a moving and irrelevant commentary upon love and art; Mme. A Ida (wife of Giulio Gatti-Casizza) appeared in La Bohème; Aida was given in Brooklyn...
...public adores freaks; it always will. And certain doting mothers will allow precocious performances of their offspring to beguile them into dragging the offspring before the journalistic spotlight. So, occasionally, some child will, through environment or training or whatnot, concoct verses to delight the critics. But critics are often guileless, often glad to enjoy novelty. The maternal conscience should keep more awake. For, after all, few poets of eleven can at thirty survive the reading of their earliest verse. If they can they are not poets...
...while the intellectual sniffs and tries to read his Proust in comfort. There can be no blended tastes, no unconventional tastes. The only individuality allowed is offered by inebriacy, and even that has its creed. Every action is timed and tried in the effort for an effect when the spotlight of public opinion is turned upon the individual. Not what one likes but what he must like, what is going to save him, self conscious mortal that he is, from the contempt of his world--that is alone important...
...creedal living cannot lead to any sweetness or much light. Quite the contrary, it has tended to make America a land where freedom is foresic and rights are reserved by referendum. Perhaps at some golden future time, even Americans will realize that capable actors become used to the spotlight...