Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Edwin Justus Mayer announced his play to New York playgoers, with Benvenuto Cellini as the principal character, the reviewers expected a dull and serious historical drama. Instead, they discovered an amusing farce, shot through with satire, which deals with Cellini in his youth as, "a gay blade, a likeable braggart, a great artist and a favorite with the ladies," writes one of its reviewers...
Since then appointments to offices in the field of education have been heaped upon him, in spite of his extreme youth. Among other honors he has been made Joint Principal of the International Peoples College of Denmark, and Director of Studies in the School of International Trade...
Each year there is a season of mystical nuptials. The population of He des Dames multiplies apace. With Phaon growing into a handsome youth, and in view of certain semi-authenticated episodes, Anni Prachtel and a few cynics remain dubious of the annual parthenogenesis. But they preserve the myth, and five years after the first crop of childen, the virgin mothers feel so self-sufficient that the disposal of male offsprings is an issue. Some are for Amazonian exposure on the mountains, some for the method that elevates voices and renders docile. Instead, compassion prevailing, an isolation colony, Manland...
...condemn a play because it happens to be unpleasant. Their idea of the Theatre is a place to go for a good laugh or a tug of war among the heart strings. The preponderance of this type of drama lover has killed many a fine play in its deserving youth. For these A Man's Man is a good play to stay away from...
...then, do not the colleges renounce the impossible and start anew on more solid ground? Implicit in the democratic idea is found a redeeming paradox in numbers. American colleges throw open to every youth a real equality of opportunity to carry his own development to the highest point of which he is capable. And so far as American colleges provide sufficient elasticity in their systems--a striking tendency of the last few years; so far as they take care in this way not to superimpose upon the exceptional student an equality of condition with the majority: just so far will...