Word: loudnesses
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...conversation or animated discussion on some point in their text-book. Discussion is very good in the right place, but we would remind these zealots that it is impossible to study while there is such an aggravating noise as is made by a conversation carried on in a loud whisper or in an undertone. April...
...word and submitted his work only to his master Flaubert for criticism, is pointed out as ideal, but he would have a poor time of it today. This is the age when everyone must cultivate "self-expression" through the mail if possible, --and everyone prefers to cultivate it out loud. And the worst of it is that, even in advocating attence, there must be more words, and more work for the "printer's devil...
...simplicity and magical effect, than this. The lighting here, as all through the play, is soft and entirely appropriate. The effect of a house in ruins was well brought out, although a trifle more illumination would not have spoiled the scene. Again one felt here that the kinsmen--now loud in their denunciation of Man who lives to no purpose--have too much restraint about them. Alexander Hamilton, the Heir from the Street, shares in this stage-consciousness until the witches enter, when he does some capital acting. (It is a notable fact that whenever anybody on the stage says...
...offer to release France from her debts is the first sign of a clearing in the much muddled "general European condition." Oil stains from the quarrel about Turkish concessions, France's obstinacy in regard to the German reparations, the secret connivings between Turkey and the unofficial Russian delegates, the loud shouting by Ismet Pasha for Thrace and the abandonment of the Capitulations, and Lord Curzon's John Bull-headed inflexibility as regards the Bosphorus have all contributed to stirring up the pool at Lausanne until it has become almost impossible to see the bottom...
...behind who, in going to sleep himself, prevents his neighbors from doing so by his snoring? Nor does he confine himself to disturbing passively his neighbors and the professor. As soon as the bell rings, in fact often a few minutes before, he ostentatiously awakens with loud, prolonged clapping...