Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a chance to unmask the minds of other men besides their regular adviser. This is not a distraction from study, but is meant to encourage men's critical faculties to play on all human activities and not to be confined in subject-tight compartments. For the one important thing that Oxford has and cares to give is the development of independent criticism...
...Great Catherine", the play was the thing rather than the interpretation of the players. It is a piece of gorgeous satire and rollicking wit. The burden of the plot concerns the efforts of an English officer at the court to keep free of the entangling wiles of the empress. Alan Mowbray, in the part, succeeded in doing this, but he did not develop a very consistent or convincing character. Jessamine Newcombe portrayed the imperial Catherine, lovely, regal, and almost barbaric enough, while Mr. Hulse was a glorious drunken chancellor whom G. B. S. very kindly provided with lines sufficiently scintillating...
Flesh, by Arthur J. Lamb, is another of those things that go down in one's recollection as a great experience. Veteran scribes of the theatre, comparing notes, decided that, on the whole, it was the worst thing they had ever seen in a first-line Broadway playhouse. The plot dealt with a girl who substituted herself for a harlot when her lover tried to take an evening off. So thoroughly ludicrous was the enterprise that the audience hooted with amusement. This has happened, in moderation, before. Never before has one of the actors in a piece actually broken down...
...Significance. Theologically, the chief characteristic of Unitarianism is its denial of the Trinity*-a doctrine on which nearly every other Christian body is in substantial agreement. Denial of the Trinity is tantamount to denial of the divinity of Christ. To the layman, Unitarianism means both these denials-and one thing more: a spirit, urbane, tolerant, intellectual lofty but not dynamic, illustrious but not victorious. Today, Unitarians regard themselves as having a special significance. They see about them "liberals" among Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, hard pressed to maintain their freedom of thought and action against "fundamentalists." They think liberals should become...
...would see red, too, if you had seen all your savings melt away because you owned an equity in an Iowa farm when financiers saw fit to de press and deflate. The hell of it is that thousands of farmers in this state and others saw the same thing, and who got the money? Tell us who got the money...