Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club, careful to mix its shots, has produced such classics as Everyman, Twelfth Night, Dr. Faustus; such a novelty as W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy; such modern plays as Biography, High Tor, The Petrified Forest. Last week it tackled John Webster's difficult Elizabethan horror play, The Duchess of Malfi, proved itself braver than Broadway, which last produced the play in 1858. (Two seasons ago Orson Welles planned to do it, got cold feet...
...book of short stories and poems, The World I Breathe, introducing to the generality of U. S. readers a young Welsh writer named Dylan Thomas whose druidical Welshness is probably without modern parallel. Greatly gifted, enormously mannered, his Merlinesque-magic dream stories were best when least diffuse, distinguished often by fine endings...
...modern cases, the possibility of producing fine books in large volume is demonstrated by the achievements of contemporary Russian, French, Italian, and German presses. Their editions were issued very cheaply, in tens or hundreds of thousands, but the calibre of printing and illustration is still high...
...NOVEL AND THE MODERN WORLD- David Daiches-University of Chicago...
Saturday afternoon the high point of the whole conference was reached as a general outlook on the whole subject of propaganda in the modern world was taken. I. A. Richards, University lecturer, and Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of psychology, gave what they considered a proper definition of propaganda and its place in education...