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There is a tradition which grows up around all "sanctums" and "holies of holies," that makes them doubly attractive on account of their very sanctity. At certain colleges, no doubt, half the lure of secret societies lies in their forbidden buildings; just as in an earlier age the vulgar stood in curious wonder outside the inner shrine which only the initiate could enter...
...Gets Slapped" grew out of the vulgar misappropriation and misinterpretation of "The Life of Man". Andreyev saw no hope for man in the present state of civilization. He said so in "The Life of Man". His "The Life of Man" was a fine piece of writing, written in the newer means and methods of the theatre, written with the power and vigor that satiric truth and penetration can alone bring. It was written before "He Who Gets Slapped", and the unacknowledged adaptations of his "The Life of Man" that were used on other continental stages, coupled with domestic unhappiness, made...
...past of the Middle Ages, when the upstart poet Dante Alighieri began to write serious verse in the "vulgar tongue", and his work was accepted by scholastic Europe, a new precedent was established. It took six centuries for that precedent to make its influence dominant, and not until a few years ago, when the rule requiring a reading knowledge of Latin for entrance to college was repealed, was its full meaning apparent. Even now to most minds a liberal education, without a knowledge of Latin, is like the house built upon sand,--without a solid foundation...
...Ficke prefaced his remarks by stating that there was a general expectation of aesthetic revelation in approaching his art; nevertheless, when these prints were being produced, they were preeminently products of a vulgar, a popular...
...went ahead in his carriage; the Deputy Marshal carried the Silver Oar; the two City Marshals would not have been out of the picture for any money. It was a brave company, and not the least brave was Captain William Kidd, looking with a calm, unflinching eye on the vulgar herd waiting for the final scene in his romantic career. He was not the first of his profession to go to Execution Dock, which, as Stow has reminded us, was the usual scene of execution for hanging of pirates and sea-rovers at the low-water mark, and there...