Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent man lecturing recently before a group of Harvard men said, "The drama is the greatest thing in the world." He was enthusiastic but was he greatly mistaken...
...quite impossible to put art up in pills and administer it to eager young pupils. But a school of the drama is concerned with technique. Technique is a means toward expression. Technique is simply how best to do it. If countless ages of men have done a thing before, and if hundreds of those men have done it supremely well, is it not reasonable to suppose that there is a great deal to be learnt from a study of how those men have done...
...vagueness and uncertainty as to the purpose of the fund attributed to a few of the collectors is perhaps more truly due to their unwillingness to enter into the spirit of the thing than to any lack of proper instruction. In a group of over one hundred collectors it is possible that a few may not do their best, and this is probably proven by the fact that 22 of the original group of collectors assigned did not even reply to the request of the committee. Every possible effort was made to instruct the collectors individually on the opening night...
...club just started in Claverly, called the Innocents Cooperative Union, comprises all those unfortunate souls whose goody persists in making her morning call while they are in the bath tub. Once in, nothing short of dynamite will dislodge her. Formerly, the best thing to do was to enter into the spirit of the pastime and laughingly take six or seven baths while she was reading the fashion page of last month's Vanity Fair. It would do no good to rush upon her in full undress: she was old and callous and stood her ground like a man. Neither would...
...have seen the repertory company teach the public to be critical. At the Old Boston Museum when the same actors followed each other about the country playing in the same places audiences vied with each other in criticizing the fine points of stage art. Now, of course, such a thing is impossible...