Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand persons were present at the performances, and, in spite of the fact that only a comparatively small number of people in the audiences could understand Greek, their interest was caught and held by the relentless sweep of the tragedy of the unhappy king. There were so many students who desired to see the play, but who were unable to get tickets, that the committee in charge allowed them to attend the dress rehearsal...
Please cancel my subscription at once. I can no longer tolerate your sneering articles regarding Catholic persons and affairs and I do not understand how any self-respecting Catholic can remain your subscriber. Your articles under RELIGION this week are an insult to nine-tenths of the Christian world for nine-tenths of that world is still Catholic. Your policy is a poor...
...masterfully. Few spines will fail to gyrate when exposed to it. The Notorious Lady (Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford). Her ill fame was gained in court, where she painted herself a scarlet woman in order to save her husband arraigned on a murder charge. As usual, the husband fails to understand such exquisite betrayal. He dons a romantic white helmet, sets out for South Africa, becomes involved with diamonds, Negroes, wild beasts. Believing him dead, his wife also visits South Africa. When such melodramas are presented in college towns, the boys throw peanuts at the screen...
...effort to see that all the safeguards are employed with the judicial system itself provides to protect its reputation for fairness by keeping men from being executed for one crime because they may perchance have shown themselves guilty of another. It has been hard for the public to understand this because some of the central issues in the case turn on important but technical principles of the law of evidence, while the material to, which these principles must be applied is of a kind to arouse strong prejudices which overwhelm the judgment...
...reflection. What they describe, he attempts to explain. In a word, his characters are self-conscious, fully aware of their situation and continually discussing it (the greater part of the poem consists of conversation) they are not the "possessed" lovers, consumed by a passion they do not attempt to understand, of the medieval story-tellers...