Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York World: "A false and clumsy play, lacking both truth and logic . . . well acted...
...this point the educational aim comes in to save the day. If the movement can bring about a method of developing the child according to his possibilities rather than to a pattern set by some social class", of giving him truths rather than myths, much may be achieved. Certainly this makes for individuality more than any possible outside reforms could do. If other motives are ever to replace the personal gain motive, education of this nature is the means. And if class and race strife is ever to give place to peaceful endeavor, it will come through teaching the child...
Whether or not this effort at sincerity, simplicity and truth will appeal to the movie millions remains to be seen. It should, however, prove a dose of insulin for cinema diabetes brought on by excesses in the sweet essences of sentimental romance...
John Dos Passos became a figure for national discussion when his Three Soldiers appeared two years ago. Its bitter, naturalistic tone was criticized by many as " disloyal." By others it was hailed as" the Truth about the War." Most critics agreed that it was a capable and occasionally brilliant piece of writing. Since then this young Harvard graduate has published a volume of poems, a volume of essays, painted a series of pictures which were exhibited in Manhattan and made two trips to Europe, from one of which he is at the moment making the return voyage. His novel...
...character study of strength and beauty. The story of a highstrung, attractive, weak woman, told as she is reflected in the lives of her various lovers,: is superbly wrought. I can think of no other picture of broken idealism so striking as that of young Neil confronted with the truth about his idol, Marian Forrester. The background of the Middle West of the last century seems thoroughly inconsequential. The story is that of Marian Forrester. Here, surely, is writing one of the most brilliant technicians in American letters...