Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian Church, often mentioned, is never seen. It exists as the possibly common Idea behind the many wrangling Words. Of the two great divisions of Christendom, Catholic and Protestant, neither is ready to merge with the other. The Catholics are willing to receive stray sheep; the Protestants are trying to federate the flocks...
While touring the provinces with her own group of Ibsen players, Miss Le Gallienne conceived the idea of the Civic Repertory Theatre. It was in Cincinnati that she put the proposition to her company. Many of them are still with her. Her backers included Otto Herman Kahn, Adolph Lewisohn, Ralph Pulitzer, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. She opened on a Monday night in 1926 with Jacinto Benavente's Saturday Night, gave Tchekov's The Three Sisters on Tuesday and, scorning to start gradually, added some Ibsen later in the week. The Pictorial Review Achievement Award for that year ($5,000) helped...
...essence of the Civic Repertory idea is that a new play shall be introduced every five or six weeks, that those already in repertory shall be constantly repeated. The theory is that, as actors become increasingly familiar with a part, their performances improve in understanding, and that, with several parts in mind, they will not stagnate. Directrix Le Gallienne would like to install a Civic Repertory Theatre in every principal U. S. city. But at present her life is fairly full. Each morning at 9:30 she fences in the big library of her theatre with Professor Santelli, a Hungarian...
Righteousness, peculiarly Nordic chastity, and much bloodletting characterized the dime novels. At their worst they exhibited a style grandiose, bizarre, ornate; at their best they were active with verbs aplenty. They gave Russian and European pre-War children the idea that the U. S. was a land whose dust was completely bitten by redskins. At Manhattan book-auctions certain dime novels now bring between...
...these days is only part of a composite goal that Harvard teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake of sports is ever gaining a larger following among college students in the East, if not alumni, than might have been fancied some years...