Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth of the theory that one need have no great system of propaganda in mind before setting out to write a novel, theory which has seemingly fallen into disrepute among the majority of the better present-day writers of this country. "Purpose, purpose. purpose" is engraved in large type across the pages of almost all the novels of note which have appeared since the beginning of the war. To be sure there have been may thousands of books published abroad as well as in this country which had not purpose, but most of them, unfortunately also lacked any pretended...
...flash, a glance--nothing more; picturing a bit of life, a short series of incidents, of the effect of events upon the participants. Considering this, the committee has in its general selection been extremely happy. No one field of human endeavor has the more ponderous, more "literary" type prevailed entirely. One thought alone seems to have guided the choices; the interesting and accurate presentation of life. Young men's carefree interoperations of existence, old men's reminiscences, athletic narratives, tales of animal life have all been included...
...questions had been confined to a type which can be answered in a few pages, the task would not have been so difficult, but matters were made worse by a selection of subjects which might well occupy a whole course of lectures. How any student, for example, can be expected to give in fifteen minutes an intelligent discussion of "the relations of England and the United States during the past one hundred years" is beyond the comprehension of the average undergraduate...
...storm of suggestion an advice from the numerous critics in Boston and New York. These have been asking, in their reviews of "A Punch for Judy", a comedy of an American business man and his family, why the Workshop does not stick to a more artistic, more unusual type of play, that is in keeping with the present-day, conventional conception of high dramatic ideals. One perhaps not understanding the purpose of the Workshop, suggests a presentation of the efforts of the best contemporary writers: another, the revival of the little seen plays of Elizabethan authors; others have still different...
That the Workshop should prove it is not entirely in the hands of experimenters in the vague, esoteric realms of ultramodernism, is nothing to be deplored. Far too often, organizations of this type progress beyond their public's ability to follow; and by so doing, lose the power to accomplish anything for the advancement of the stage. The Workshop, by putting on a play of everyday life, has done much to win the confidence of the every-day follower of the drama...