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The Father. Mad Johan August Strindberg wrote this play about a mad man in 1887, partly to attack the growing feminist movement in Sweden, partly to work off some of his hatred of woman kind. Revived by Robert Loraine and a company of British actors, it retains all the fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Revivals | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Utopianissimist Herbert George Wells believes "Man is immortal, but not men. . . . Man ... is more important than the things in the individual life, and this I believe not as a mere sentimentality, but as a rigorously true statement of biological and mental fact. Our individuality is, so to speak, an inborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Albion | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

The appointment has led the CRIMSON to print an editorial in which allusion is made to "the various groups of alumni who sometimes make the College's rowing policy a matter of concern to themselves." And the CRIMSON goes on, "There still remain vestiges of past rowing history which may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson-Colored Glasses | 1/4/1930 | See Source »

The story itself is equally divided between fact and fable. That part of it which has historic basis deals with the young monarch's campaign against Darius and the Persians. To this the playwright had added a faintly Freudian obsession on Alexander's part for Helen of Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

By its sheer artistry, Sons and Lovers escapes its Freudian obsession with the mother-son relationship, and establishes itself as a classic human document expressed in lyric prose. But since then (1913) Author Lawrence has played less the artist and more the psychiatrist, his favorite study still the positive and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychiatry | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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