Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just out, but his presence was announced by a demonstration brief and sincere. None interrupted with conventional shouts while Mr. Lunn read: " . . . The declaration of party principles might well be tentatively drafted at the earliest possible moment. . . . In the heat and rush of the Convention the platform when finally written is, to my way of thinking, not sufficiently understandable to the masses of the people...
...France before he collapsed in health (TIME, July 4). In a stirring plea for this pact Poet-Statesman Claudel cried: "Casual thinking people, speaking of the proposal, have said: 'It is nothing but words. . . . Can you stop war with paper?' . . . Well, words are great things. It is written: 'In the beginning was the Word. . . . I remember, too, some general declarations, some pieces of writing, which were well worth the paper they were written on. . . . I remember the Declaration of Independence...
...following article, discussing the opera "Louise", by Charpentier, was written by Professor E. B. Hill '94, Head of the Department of Music. "Louise" is to be given by the Chicago Opera Company on Harvard Night, which is to be held on Monday, February...
...reasons. First, it is the outcome of sincere experiment in substituting a story of "real life" among the working classes for the romantic or history subjects previously in vogue. Furthermore its text, following the example of Bruneau, a great admirer of Zola and the literary cult of "realism" is written not in verse but in prose by Charpentier himself. Secondly, its scene is laid in the Montmartre quarter of Paris when that section was the native habitat of Bohemian artists, literary men and musicians, and not a stopping point for sight-seeing omnibuses...
...plot is simple. Louise, the daughter of honest and conservative working people, herself employed in a dress-maker's-shop, has fallen in love with Julien a poet and "pillar of a cabaret" as Louise's mother succintly describes him. Julien has written frankly to the parents to ask for Louise's hand in marriage. The poet's careless life and invisible income do not prepossess the somewhat strait-laced parents in his favor, and they refuse his offer. Louise promises to clope with her lover if the opposition continues. After a fantastic picture of Montmartre at night in which...