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...literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly in a protest against the prevailing badness", Sinclair Lewis...
...seen the first act through, as one of the dramas of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as belonging to the period of Ibsen, Zola, Hardy, and the other great questioners of the established order of things. The predominant note which Sudermann strikes in "Magda" is one of protest and incidentally of inevitable tragedy. The comparison with Ibsen's "Ghosts" and the other Ibsen's dramas of a like nature comes almost immediately to the mind. In essential feeling the two have much in common, but Sudermann introduces far less of the morbidly exotic,--plays less in the weird...
Sirs: As a member of the Society of Friend- may I make a small protest against calling anyone a "Quaker Devildog," or one who fought in 22 wars and is off to another fight "a sturdy Quaker" "We utterly deny all outward wars for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever," a testimony issued in 1660 has been followed consistently by an unbroken succession of such declarations through all wars since. It does not jibe somehow with your statement. Once I heard someone introduce Smedley Butler's father, the Congressman, as a Quaker, and he hastily denied it, saying...
...registered and licensed. The Mediterranean lands are declared the chief source of "white slaves," and Latin America is the principal consumer region. During the reading of the Committee's report-signed by its U. S. Chairman, William F. Snow-a member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenancière into English as "madame." Tenancière, he protested, meant a woman who kept disorderly premises; and madame is the ordinary title of married Frenchwomen. Tiems! Did the Committee propose to slander at one stroke all the honest wives of France...
...plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been no organized protest, had seemed to indicate that Sunday symphony concerts might be no more pernicious. Few Pittsburghers stopped to consider that a Beethoven symphony or even a Debussy suite might contain more of the stuff of the spirit than a Moody & Sankey hymn...