Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commenting on "Brown of Harvard," Mr. Lawrence said yesterday, "The action of 'Brown of Harvard' comes at a period which has been very little written about in the last few years and which has yet had no dramatic revival. People seem inclined to confuse it with the gay and reckless nineties, which have been in so much prominence lately, although it was written a decade after the close of this period...
...thin ice above the deep affinity between sex and religion. Now a playwright, William J. Hurlbut, has stepped full on it and there are some who say that it will break and he will be found thrashing around with the police. Some of these say that he has written a great play and some that it is cheapened by the obviously sensational. All were bound by its spell...
...Century a certain Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, soldier of fortune retired to devote himself to literature, who, weary of the frothy, extravagant romances that had so long been the vogue in Spain, set himself to mock his scribbling brothers with a tale more fantastic than any that had been written. A great satirist, Cervantes?a greater poet. He took for his hero a knight as mad as the northwind, put him through incredible paces, made him withal so real, so courageous, so pathetic, so magnificent that not for three centuries has one been found to rival...
...that record one day are sometimes 60 pages** long. Knowledge is power, but the old-style encyclopedias that contain it are so heavy that only a powerful arm can lift them. Words burn like stars, great thoughts outlast granite mountains, but the books in which words and thoughts, are written will weary a man's hand and tear his pocket. "Condense what you write," this age has said; "compress it, synchronize it, cut it down." For borne time such reflections as these have animated the mind of Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske, U. S. N., retired. Recently they have...
...talk tonight he will show how the drama, both in its acted and written form, has influenced the political developments and upheavals of modern times...