Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. That Man is at once tragic and comic, sublime and ignoble, vastly individual yet universally interesting, are maxims of life, and stock for novelists. This book is least concerned with the first given maxim; it would be a greater work if it dealt more with it. It reveals the second maxim subtly and upon the third, it is founded. There is no person created by Mr. Bromfield that is not poignantly individual, and even peculiar. The more his characters assert themselves and the older they grow, the more they intensify themselves. You have never seen John, Julia, Lily...
...over," said Mr. MacDonald, in a mock tragic whisper...
...Confusion," a novel by J. G. Cozzens '26, is the biography of Cerise D'Atree. More significantly, it is a record of life as she found it: superficially, a tapestry of intricate, brilliant, and picturesque detail; inwardly, desperate and futile. There is nothing sordid or even tragic in any scene of this story to account for the complete disenchantment of life, which is the ultimate effect of the book as a whole. Its scenes are full of charm and delight and beauty, through which moves air extraordinary variety of real persons, most of whom accept the world at its face...
...Confusion", a novel by J. G. Cozzens '26, is the biography of Cerise D'Atree. More significantly, it is a record of life as she found it: superficially, a tapestry of intricate, brilliant, and picturesque detail; inwardly, desperate and futile. There is nothing sordid or even tragic in any scene of this story to account for the complete disenchantment with life, which is the ultimate effect of the book as a whole. Its scenes are full of charm and delight and beauty, through which moves an extraordinary variety of real persons, most of whom accept the world at its face...
...Theopold '25 Cleopatra A. M. White '25 Richards Clark Hodder '25 Leading Chorus Man J. G. Cushman '25 Kitty E. M. Carson '24 Molly Ranlet Miner '25 Janet Adair H. N. Pratt '24 Bob Stanley J. D. Lodge '25 Webber F. Van W. Mason '24 Barritello, a tragic actor J. S. Moynahan ocC. Barbara Rhodes Lockwood '24 Sarah R. P. Rose '25 Mrs. Withers S. G. French '25 Act II A Troubadour Clark Hodder '25 Friar Benedictino Clark Hodder '25 Fernando Ranlet Miner '25 Alonzo A. M. White '25 Warren A. B. Cassedy '24 Don John W. Berlitz, the Governor...