Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WINDOWS - The Theatre Guild prospering with a play by John Galsworthy on the psychology of a wayward girl...
Floriani's Wife. Academically interesting, but not emotionally vigorous, this play by Luigi Pirandello (Italian playwright, who wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author) arrived in a Greenwich Village theatre, off the beaten Broadway track. It tells of a wayward woman, her attempt to return to her child and husband, her failure. Margaret Wycherly is the redeeming feature. But even the fire of her intelligent performance shines but dimly under the bushel of interminable talk...
ADAM'S RIB - An expensive, elaborate hash of cavemen, foreign revolutions, ex-kings, the Chicago wheat-pit in a state of acute neurasthenia, flappers, wayward mothers, and hokum...
...dagger, and is only diverted from her highly original purpose by the "higher claim" of the latter, we wondered whether we had not blundered into a performance of "East Lynne" by mistake. The "higher claim" died in the third act (we knew it would), but not before the wayward hubby had treated us to that choice antique "Forgive me if you can". Somehow we scarcely left inclined to do so. Last but not least, the audience indulged itself liberally in our great American indoor sport repeated curtain calls after every act (except the last...
Rather than leave the wayward undergraduate to his fate the faculty must educate him in spite of himself. If students will not of themselves learn to think outside, they may at least be started upon their cogitations in the classroom. General discussion and questions keep the students awake and force them to think intelligently. This is particularly advisable in the so-called "thinking courses"--economics and philosophy, for example; but it finds a ready application in almost every branch of the curriculum. At Harvard, where the lecture system is a favorite with the faculty, it is especially important to realize...