The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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... play instead of work , with ordered lessons in school in place of the dear disorder of nature , and her companionship , and his own soul's . The simple needs of authorship have not changed . II But what child nowadays has such teaching ...
... play instead of work , with ordered lessons in school in place of the dear disorder of nature , and her companionship , and his own soul's . The simple needs of authorship have not changed . II But what child nowadays has such teaching ...
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... Play ? The sweat on that little face , the tongue tight between the teeth , the utter un- consciousness of burning sun and cool- ing dinner , are the very signs of divine creative work . Every son of God needs , if not a world to create ...
... Play ? The sweat on that little face , the tongue tight between the teeth , the utter un- consciousness of burning sun and cool- ing dinner , are the very signs of divine creative work . Every son of God needs , if not a world to create ...
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... play , before they learn to see and hear ; they come to write , before experience has given them anything to say . They must come to school , the prophet from the wilderness , the poet from the fields and hills , when twice ten summers ...
... play , before they learn to see and hear ; they come to write , before experience has given them anything to say . They must come to school , the prophet from the wilderness , the poet from the fields and hills , when twice ten summers ...
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... play is due rather to its wide dispersion than to its actual badness . That is : if one bad picture is released , a million people will see it ; whereas a dozen bad plays reach only a very few spectators in comparison . According to all ...
... play is due rather to its wide dispersion than to its actual badness . That is : if one bad picture is released , a million people will see it ; whereas a dozen bad plays reach only a very few spectators in comparison . According to all ...
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... plays . The movie public is not taking the country through , as I say the thea- tre - going public . The movies are cer- tainly a new substitute for something ; but what they are a substitute for is not the legitimate stage . They are a ...
... plays . The movie public is not taking the country through , as I say the thea- tre - going public . The movies are cer- tainly a new substitute for something ; but what they are a substitute for is not the legitimate stage . They are a ...
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