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Yesterday an officer from the City of Cambridge came and told the Dramatic Club that The Barn is to be torn down this morning. The widening of Church Street has taken toil of several structures in the neighborhood, but had spared The Barn. Now it is the turn of that ancient and venerable building...
Behind the slim plot, through long-drawn-out dialogue, Italian Dramatist Pirandello's philosophy of reality struggles to reveal itself. Facts are not reality, are merest illusions of the senses. Fiction of the imaginative mind is the only true reality. Hence the pity of it: a poor girl torn out of her last shred of beauty, revealed even in death, a sordid fact...
...audience fidgets, dwindles. The play means nothing to the unphilosophical. Of action there is practically nothing. Of emotion there is plenty, but what audience can sympathize with characters torn by the incomprehensible? Naked seems to be, in translation at least, a noble effort staggering beneath the weight of an idea too great for the strength...
...race or group, but for all the people of all the Islands. Nearly two thirds of the people are still illiterate, in spite of our splendid educational work there. How can we expect a lot of different tribes scattered over 3000 islands speaking 87 different languages and dialects, and torn by tribal and religious jealousies, to exercise a form of government devised by northern peoples for a northern climate, and resting on the consent of an enlightened electorate...
...people of China are for the most part exhausted and annoyed by the political unrest that has torn the provinces for the last 15 years," continued Roots, "and the Civil War is an attempt to settle once and for all the bickering between the politicians. The South of China has arrayed itself against the North. The Progressives are opposed to the Conservatives...