Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be no surprise to learn that Ibsen is definitely dated. His battles have been fought to a finish on the lines he marked out and if society has not attained the peak of liberal rationality which he desired it is at least clear that the urban theatre goers have arrived at a state of sophistication which prevents them from regarding illicit love as shocking. Ibsen's fight in "Ghosts" was against convention and the rigid moral code of his time which resolved life into "duty and obligation" and left happiness as a sort of rare unearned increment...
...suddenly came out of hiding and confessed what nearly everybody else at U. C. L. A. except Dean Miller had known for two years, namely, that he was a ringer almost 30 years old passing under an assumed name. Year before he entered college he had attended Urban Military Academy, a U. C. L. A. "farm," where he played under the name of "Tex" Maness. When he registered at U. C. L. A.. Key "confessed" to Dean Miller that his real name was not "Tex" Maness, but "Ted" Key. The Dean duly reported this irregularity to Pacific Coast Conference...
...progression to it" until the AAA becomes almost all-embracing in scope, and affects people in ways other than their productive capacities. Thus the AAA, which by its nature must be relatively static, and based on supposed fixities of population, among other things, runs afoul the tendency of urban unemployed to flock to rural areas where they expect to make some sort of living. Where then is the solution unless the government buys up "surplus" land...
...hours a week to work of this nature, the reward is to be found in a clearer understanding of economic problems gained from personal contact with a few of those who are on the edge of economic ruin; in a realization of some of the dangers and limitations of urban life for the under-priviledged; in a lasting impression of some problems of citizenship...
...Feliciana are casual and fragmentary, contain only marginal sociological comment. Some times Stark Young seems little more than a leisurely collector of old Southern impressions, exhibiting dissociated bits of conversations, rare historical items, with the polite, after-dinner wit of one displaying trophies of a hunt. Always contrasting feverish urban affectations with the contented days and rich histories of small Southern and Western towns, he finds humor, common sense and human decency characteristic of the provincials. His portraits of them would carry more conviction if occasionally human sweat and hot temper broke the serenity of his air-conditioned South...