Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Claudel tried to describe the strange forms and shapes that stir in his mind. To the other he talked of tones and tunes never perhaps to be heard. The sculptor and the musician did the best they could; and, it is said, eased somewhat Paul Claudel's thirst to create, even in mediums where his keen mind tells him that he has neither talent nor skill...
...necessity to assuage the American thirst for novelty is the parent of this new indoor spirit--Radio Hypnosis. Suppose, however, that it were more than a Vaudeville Act and that by chance the enterprising Radiologist of WBZ had inadventently disclosed a pearl in the newly cracked oyster...
...Story. Elmer Gantry of Paris, Kan., was born to be a talented garbage contractor or meat salesman. But his pious mother and the Baptist Church have given him everything except any longing for decency and kindness and reason." So they, and his well-developed thirst, lust and cowardice, drive him into the ministry. The first page finds him drunk in a saloon near his alma mater, Terwillinger College. Needing a fight, he lurches into a soap-box crowd that a pimpled Y. M. C. A. pipsqueak is converting, and flattens the hecklers. The Baptists gasp. "HellCat" Gantry, the black-maned...
...Thief. Another mysterious horror-monger keeps the audience guessing and for no good reason of plot. Yet its crazy eccentricity pops, flares and gyrates the idle curiosity, and gluts the modish thirst for murder in every act. Among those possibly guilty are a set of ex-convicts bearing brands upon their foreheads. This is the first play of Edward E. Paramore Jr., clever writer. It is distinguished by better characterization than is usual or necessary in this dramatic form, is exceptionally well acted (Margaret Wycherly, in particular), and chills as well as any of these things can. It is housed...
Emotional sequences proceed with similar distinctness, subtle as the Russians, lucid as the French. Twilight is the tragedy of Dietz von Egloff driven to suicide by his thirst for a real fate among peers immured by aristocratic routine. He takes the wife, then the life, of his best friend. From Fastrade, whom he loves, he can evoke nothing but pity. She takes his body home through a spring morning with birds and sunlight making a festival of death...