Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...
...romantic jumbles as are contemporary London, New York and all Continental cities. According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery. Obstacles will be man's persistent following of the least resistance line, his respect for the past. As the straight line is best for the ideal city, the curved line being too rococco and impractical in an age of metal construction, the city of the future must be planned rectangularly. His projected city has a concentrated business district in the centre of vast areas of suburban residence zones. In the morning the workers pass by rapid...
...former lover kills her present one. No introvert, Diana does not often brood; and when she does, her pessimism is only of the morning after. "To taste of everything just once-in order to be able to despise everything." In Diana, Author Ludwig has tried to give the ideal of modern emancipated woman: a realistic romantic, he has called her by the name of a goddess...
...those who delight in pouring paradimethyl aminoazo benzene into metadiaminodiphenol sulphonic acid, and watching it turn pink, this course is ideal. If you prefer sky blue add a little trinitro-toluene instead...
...Daily a system of supervised dormitories for men hardly represents the ideal in student living quarters. For first-year men there may be an advantage in dormitories where they can make contacts and friendships, and possibly have some. Hollywood ideas of college corrected under tactful guidance, but the watchdog attitude that a dormitory supervisor is forced to assume should certainly not be carried beyond the freshman year. It stunts the development of self-reliance and self-discipline, both of which will be of equal importance with academic achievement when the student finds himself unshielded by his alma mater...