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Pusey's appeal is somewhat like that of the medieval church to peasants. We must trudge on, with blinders affixed, through these troubled times, eyes always on the "world of reason, modesty, charity and trust." This is the liberal dream-world; its theatric the mortar of the ivory tower of the bourgeoisie, no more concretely responsive to the anguish of the world now than it was a hundred years...
...reading. Each one represents the view of a different man, in a different discipline, and usually in a different institution from all the other contributors, with a unique viewpoint. If any criticism can be made, it is that the more radical of the contributors have chosen to indulge in theatric, rather than in a systematic critique of the university, and that certain of the administrators represented here have written in vague generalities more appropriate to a president's annual report or the position paper of a Senate candidate than to a serious scholar's essay. Both public and private universities...
...American lives, loves, liberties and laughter were being exhibited everywhere on Europe's battered boards, from London's Globe to Rome's Quirino. European plays about Americans, and Europeans' reaction to the flood of imported U.S. plays, reflected-in the bizarre but revealing light of theatric truth-what other nations think Americans are like...
...course Elliott Roosevelt could have made a spectacular and theatric gesture and enlisted as a private, thereby accruing to himself temporary praise, but as everyone knows within a few months he would have been offered a commission as would any other man of h.s age, experience and position...
...Pudding Full of Plums" has any theatric vitality in the present production, it is mainly due to the remarkably fine work of Miss Lois Hall in the role of Ann, and to the interesting direction of John Cecil Haggot. W. E. H. "Boston Evening Transcript...