Word: themes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with "The Doctor from Spain." This time he develops an entertaining tale of the adventure of a pretended doctor; after the denouement he seems rather uncertain how to end his story. Mr. Parson has allowed himself hardly enough room, in "Captain Kidd and Crew," in which to manipulate his theme; and within his single page he wastes several sentences in making comments that disclose, for the writer of a story that deals with boys, an elderly type of mind. A delicate problem of conflicting views of honor and duty is set forth in Mr. Carpenter's "The Greater Fear...
...greatest single feature of the entire dedication will be the pageant and masque which will be staged in the great court of the new buildings on June 13. The theme running throughout the masque will be the gradual conquering of the forces of nature by man. The thousand or more Technology students taking part will represent chaos gradually forming into definite elements and leading up to twentieth-century civilization. The pageant, which will be shown between the scenes of the masque will depict Technology's influence upon civilization and her relationship to the advancement of making. Following this there will...
...Ficke has put into his "Irises" the sound of the "Passing water of the cool stream, Coming from afar," and leaves a faint impression of a passion for which the real Iris would be no solace. Augustus Lord's "By Autumn Seas" is a manly utterance on the old theme of world desolation and the comfort of "Love's dauntless cheer." Conrad Aiken has solzed perforce upon the poetry of the unpoetic in his "Vaudeville." He loves the verse of contrast, the skipping danseuse edging back and forth across the stage, hopelessly beloved by the violinist; and the shadowy silent...
...Transfigured Julia" gleefully hits off the capricious changes of fashion in girls: "Lissome Julia anatomically slight," "Robust Julia, playing golf and swimming harder," Suffrage Julia "prances in the [poet's] limelight." Witter Bynner is not up to his poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...
None of the verse is highly distinguished, though some of it shows considerable technical expertness. Some is purely traditional and imitative in theme, but here and there breaks in, even on these metrical exercises the overmastering absorption of the hour, and gives them a touch of actuality...