Word: forcefullness
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The Outsider is an exceptional play, raised above a clinical discussion by the warm emotion of a girl's adolescent libido, but perspiring a little with theatrical laboring. Katherine Cornell gives an extraordinarily balanced portrayal, making the proper suggestion of a maimed butterfly fluttering its wings. Her acting swings...
Sir Adolphus Ward and George Peabody Gooch, heading an imposing list of Cambridge dons, with here and there an "alien savant," have contributed a work of significance which is consistent in its excellence of quality and in its forceful authority with any work that has yet emanated from that seat...
"But what is essential is pacifism, active pacifism, as long as peace lasts; the impressing on those in power of the complete absurdity of war." That is simply sublime. It is worthy of a great humorist. "Active pacifism" this said in a loud forceful voice, then whisper "as long as...
Magnus Johnson, junior Senator from Minnesota: "At a banquet in Philadelphia, I addressed 700 prominent bankers. Said I: 'The Mellon tax plan will never pass because it favors the wealthy.' At this the bankers stood up, hissed me for three minutes. I halted my speech until the hisses subsided, then...
The Senator's speech was approximately the same length as the President's message, but it dealt with fewer subjects and at greater length with these. There is no question that it was an exceedingly able speech?direct, forceful, well organized, rhetorically polished. A condensation follows: