Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chart her titanic course through the letters of our time. She is herself inimical to critics, and one of her strongest aphorisms insists that the artist stands in need of appreciation, but never of criticism. This has been sufficient to deter many of the faculty; Sherwood Anderson, most apt among her pupils, stylizes, and Ernest Hemingway, imitates, her. In "Axel's Castle," Mr. Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes, he explains a poem. But her personal development glimmers through his words with an agonizing inconstancy that is almost caprice...
...modern architecture so that one need never feel ill at ease in the most angular of skyscrapers, or the most exclusive of modernistic salons. What is more, not merely does he display all these works of art, but he sells them to his class. The sleepy auditor is apt to wonder whether he is listening to the dean of the architectural school teaching Fine Arts, or Joseph P. Day auctioning off the Metropolitan Museum. Accordingly, this course is the dilettante's delight. For the socially ambitious sophomore who would charm the tea-tables of Brattle street, it is an unavoidable...
...passed away, but the other has a task, and an activity, that cannot be so limited. H. L. M. will continue as our republic's most original and vital intellectual force; the Mercury is dead, but Mr. Mencken will survive, to use his last rugged phrase in the apt confounding of a dolt. POLLUX...
...more than a superficial reduction of Messrs. Samuel Eliot Morison and James Truslow Adams. "The People's Choice" was inspired by the logical connection between the problems which confront Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the coronation of Democracy with its owners in 1829. His thesis, conveyed through the apt medium of presidential biography, is briefly this: since 1789, America has progressed through three cycles of governmental control, through oligarchy, democracy, to plutocracy. Democracy, for the West "an inescapable condition, like the weather," swarmed over and engulfed the separate dreams of Hamilton, the Adamses, and Jefferson, leaving instead of plan...
...Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, slick lawyer, faces a charge of conspiracy in murder to bring about a show-down in court. HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY-Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A dozen stories, some about Lord Peter Wimsey; some about Montague Egg, traveling salesman full of apt saws; some about neither. THE DEAD PARROT-Michael Keyes- Crime Club ($2). BULL'S EYE - Milward Kennedy - Kinsey...