Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, the moving picture will never be able to do any justice to those more vital stories which concern themselves with the struggle of human wills and the development of character. Here the shadow on the screen cannot replace the living personality, nor the "flash" suggest the spoken word. To attempt to "screen" one of the searching character delineations of Sir Arthur Pinero, one of the seathing satires of Bernard Shaw, or one of the witty farces of W. S. Maugham, would be quite as futile as are the condensed novels of Thackeray which appear complete in one newspaper...
...close relation of a large part of its contents to the world outside the University and to the questions that confront our own country. This attitude is part of a general salutary tendency that has recently manifested itself at Harvard to bring the academic existence into more vital touch with public interests. The tendency is to be discerned in many phases of the University's life, in the activities of the many different societies of students as well as in the nature of the instruction given in the courses. The 47 Workshop (recent productions of which are criticized...
...brilliant conclusion of another 47 Workshop season again raises the question of how long that vital Harvard instituting will have to wait before being in a home of its own. How soon are we to have a Harvard Playhouse which will measure up to the one Yale has provided for her dramatic organizations? The Workshop should be master in a house of its own, rather than be obliged to oscillate between cramped quarters in Lower Massachusetts and an inadequate auditorium at Agassiz House for its final performances...
When our fathers and grandfathers were our age there was no indefiniteness in their minds as to whether they wanted to belong to one party or the other--they belonged--and, belonging, they felt that what the party did was of vital importance to them and that they took a part in its doings. They knew what was what politically...
Henry Osborn Taylor '78 has-written a book called "Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century." This work, in two volumes, shows throughout the vital continuity between the Middle Ages, treated by Dr. Taylor in a preceding volume, "The Mediaeval Mind," and the period commonly called the Renaissance. The book will be ready for the public in April, according to the announcement of the publishers, the Macmillan Company...