Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Opera," according to Rosing, "is of the theatre and for the theatre Public, a public that loves music but wants with it dramatic stage entertainment, that from the point of view of rational treatment, suggestive action, and characterization, will parallel any intelligently produced drama. From this angle 'Faust' has been...
Faust, like the necromancers of his day, gazes into a crystal globe, in which the figure of Marguerite appears, just as it might be conjured up by Faust's own fancy. The philosopher declares for pleasure at any price. The stage is darkened for a moment, and there appear seated...
All of which lent point to a bit of political theorizing, indulged in last week at an American Bankers' Association banquet, by President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Frank's boldly rational suggestion was that Congressional lobbyists should be recognized, dignified, legalized and set up...
Rain or Shine. Joe Cook is a comic, worshiped not by his public but by his disciples. He is a comedian funny through the sheer disconnection of his dialogues. He tells unending stories with the eagerest conviction, no two sentences of which have the faintest rational relation. He wears no...
Boyhood he spent in efforts to escape farm drudgery, not by loafing but through such rational adventures as peddling dinner bells and lightning rods. Grade school and high school he was encouraged to attend, but he had to teach country school and write newspaper fillers until he saved enough to...