Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight of steps, is monotonous in spite of numerous lighting effects, but Burt Kelsey's grouping of the actors on various stage levels to display the proper subordination of characters is excellent. A blatant loudspeaker, an overdose of fire and brimstone, insecure craftsmanship in the delivery of certain vital lines, and a lack of restraint in the comedy detract somewhat from the performances of Glenn Wilson as Faust and Basil Burwell as Mephistopheles, but Faust's struggle between his better self and his lost for power is nonetheless arresting...
...that bankers boycott U. S. bonds, Orval Adams has rarely missed a chance to snipe at the New Deal. Last week was no exception. Warning of a trend toward fascism or national socialism, he sombrely declared in his opening address: "To recapture control in Federal spending is the most vital issue confronting this great democracy. . . ." He then introduced RFC Chairman Jesse Jones as "a conservative" who had been "a tower of strength against Treasury raiders...
...This vital and fundamental struggle between the traditional conservatism and the, to Whitman, mystical desire for social reform in the mind of the editor-poet is sharply, forcefully described by Mr. Arvin, who makes of him a dual personality. One part of Whitman is the government clerk, the traditionalist and the conventionalist; the other is the poet who instinctively fears for the future of democracy in an age of money-chasing, corrupt politicians, of oppressed industrial workers. On practically every social and political question, Whitman tends to diverge within himself. He writes paeans on the equality of all human beings...
...conductor appears as composer in two so-called "Nature Poems," orchestrated last year from a set of three written in 1919. This curiously un-vital music consists of a slight Pastoral and a more amusing Bacchanal, composed in a rather wayward French style, uncommonly exotic for an Englishman. The treatment of the orchestra is less brilliant than one might expect...
...over forty years, he lived and moved as a vital part of the Harvard community, impressing students and colleagues alike by his ability, his sincerity and his humanity. All Harvard will today mourn his passing...