Word: symbolisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A thing well done must be commended, and after the first burst of enthusiasm is over it requires considerable effort to get down to a normal critical plane and find anything like the perspective so easily applied to the average play. In the first place, Andreyev's "Life of Man...
Undoubtedly the most difficult scene to handle was the third, in which Man, now a rich and influential playwright, gives a ball for his friends. Skillful in balancing the previous scene when Man and his wife were the seekers, the ambitious ones, and the unfortunates, against their single and dramatic...
All this is intelligible enough, and entertaining. The other characters are knowable and their actions follow human motives, displayed for their own sake. Yet there is a topsy-turvy something in the play, a hinting at hidden meanings, which sets the key awry. What are the innuendoes of symbolism that...
The object of the campaign in the American colleges is not so much for the purpose of obtaining the funds necessary for the construction of the new building as to justify the symbolism involved. In order that the gift shall be truly representative, the national committee is endeavoring to have...
The library of the University of Louvain, destroyed in 1914 by the Germans, is to be rebuilt by Americans, and 640 colleges and universities are taking an active interest in the work. The object of the contribution is not so much to obtain funds for the construction of the new...