The Playhouse and the Play: And Other Addresses Concerning the Theatre and Democracy in America |
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... society ; their own society , its need of health , its erotic and neurasthenic pangs . Theirs is the mes- sage of overpopulation , and all the pessimism of that . Is such the predestined message of our American democracy ? Is such the ...
... society ; their own society , its need of health , its erotic and neurasthenic pangs . Theirs is the mes- sage of overpopulation , and all the pessimism of that . Is such the predestined message of our American democracy ? Is such the ...
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... society . Significant is this distinction . Not Norway , nor the peoples of Europe , cry out through Ibsen and his followers ; not those peoples , whose great masses are still peasant , full- blooded , inarticulate as in the feudal age ...
... society . Significant is this distinction . Not Norway , nor the peoples of Europe , cry out through Ibsen and his followers ; not those peoples , whose great masses are still peasant , full- blooded , inarticulate as in the feudal age ...
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... society . This demand is just , for it is proportioned to the public influence , for good or for evil , inherent in ... society has safeguarded those vocations themselves by establishing certain tests and standards of fitness for their ...
... society . This demand is just , for it is proportioned to the public influence , for good or for evil , inherent in ... society has safeguarded those vocations themselves by establishing certain tests and standards of fitness for their ...
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