At the New Theatre And Others. the American Stage: Its Problems And Performances, 1908-1910
The book At the New Theatre And Others. the American Stage: Its Problems And Performances, 1908-1910 was written by author Loewy, Benno, 1854-1919. Fmo Here you can read free online of At the New Theatre And Others. the American Stage: Its Problems And Performances, 1908-1910 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is At the New Theatre And Others. the American Stage: Its Problems And Performances, 1908-1910 a good or bad book?
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Somehow, the sweep of that blue Bay and the eternal mystery of Italy call him still, though he can remain absent from Kokomo without a regret. Matthew Arnold, in his lecture on Emerson, pointed out as some of America's dangers " the absence of the discipline of respect ; . . . hard- ness and materialism ; exaggeration and boast- fulness; ... a false smartness, a false audac- ity, a want of soul and delicacy." And of Emerson he said, " To us he shows for guid- ance his lucid freedom, his cheerfu...lness and hope; to you his dignity, delicacy, serenity, elevation." Daniel Voorhees Pike was certainly not dis- ciplined in respect ; and did he not possess just these dangerous qualities of false smartness, false audacity, exaggeration and boastfulness ? Certainly he did not possess dignity, delicacy, serenity, elevation. They are moral attributes. 188 AT THE NEW THEATRE and just so far as he is held up as a hero with- out them he is lacking in moral worth and soundness; and the play is lacking in moral worth and soundness, were it not still further made immoral by its falsification of European society, its abandoned disregard of anything good in the Old World, to make an Indianian holiday.
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