Word: arrow-head
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...vagueness. It is all very well to claim that such a method enhances the desired mysticism or the exotic Indian atmosphere; but technical devices should not become obvious mannerisms, and the interpretation of some of the episodes almost baffles even the most careful reader. Mr. Weeks' store called "The Arrow-head" proceeds clearly and cleverly until the denouement is reached; then the mode of treatment is suddenly changed, and the final situation is suggested so dimly that the result is an anti-climax. The some difficulty appears in a less degree in "The Walloping Window Blind". In characterization, narrative skill...
...countless adjectives. The Advocate betrays the presence of the epidemic, though happily in a less serious form than in the past; and by a strange coincidence, in this very number, the excellent review of Samuel Hopkins Adams' novel, "Success", contains a powerful denunciation of the adjectival style. In "The Arrow-Head", the descriptions of the apartment in New York and of the farm in the Middle West are typical examples of the straining after a vivid and detailed presentation of the milieu, quite in the manner of "Main Street". The story in the "Translation from the Navajo", despite the author...
...good of which they are capable. A ministers life has its temptations, nor can all men succeed in the profession. But the man who fails must be compared not with his profession but with what he would be, were he in some other vocation. One cannot make an arrow-head out of a piece of putty...
With stringless bow and shivered arrow-head...
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