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...theatricality, his companion theory of the monodrama. It means much more than the art of the theatre. It embraces a much wider field of human activity, originating, actually, in life itself and from there ascending to its highest expression on the stage. By theatricality he understands the power of transformation which he believes to be deeply rooted in human character. To appear what one is not, to transform life into a continuous performance is the ideal which should be set up by humanity. To put it in other words to escape the misery and suffering of existence you must escape...
...fixtures similar to the Leiter Cup Series as a substitute for intercollegiate football. These would automatically restore football from its present degradation as a science to its former glory as a game. They would rob it of commercialism and heroics and give it informality, gayety and humor. They would transform it from the life work of a few to the play of the many. Minced Chickens would be an appropriate name for almost any football team Or how about Dropped Eggs? --Judge, October...
Results were two: 1) From El Brisbane, Maréchal Pétain commands stragetically a large territory, but any great advance, in view of the desperate resistance of the Riffians, will be extremely difficult, because the rainy season will very shortly open and transform the salient into a quagmire over which French war paraphernalia cannot be dragged; 2) politically the victory is of some importance because it has led to the surrender of the Beni Urriaguet tribe, whose territory the French now dominate...
...Maxwell people, still his empoyers, were so impressed, and enriched, that they readily agreed to transform themselves, their properties and assets, into a new Chrysler Motor Corporation (TIME, Apr. 20). Last week, this transformation was consummated. The Chrysler Motor Corporation promptly declared a $4 dividend on its Preferred A, and two full pages in The Saturday Evening Post (at cost of $14,000) announced a further exploit of Walter P. Chrysler...
...their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: 'Do something. Get busy. Fill the hour. Make every minute count--never mind what it counts for--and in four years the magic of hustle-bustle will transform us into educated...