Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official self soon reminded Author Hoover to leave beatitudes and state his case, which he did with much clarity and despatch. The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, he said, knows there are ten million U. S. fishermen. Its New Jersey reports suggest that each fisherman catches only 4.5 fish per annum. Mr. Hoover proposed an idea...
...Author Hamsun wrote the tale before he had reached the stature that put a Nobel Prize (1920) in his grasp for Growth of the Soil. He had, however, the same instinct for completeness, totality; the same slow scrutiny which, if you wait long enough, turns out to the vast drollery of a cosmic unbeliever...
...music of a fugue, this movement touches the themes of the first, catches them in new cadences and changed echoes. The group of people for whom Mrs. Ramsay had been the axis, whirl and drift like the specks of a nebula. In a curious key, full of sharps, Author Woolf produces the effect of an enormous change in life where little change is apparent...
...Significance of Author Woolf's last novel, Mrs. Dalloway, was that her "stream of consciousness" method was not only startlingly original but startlingly successful as well. Mrs. Dalloway observed the classic unities of drama, concentrating on one woman, one day in her life. In To the Lighthouse the stream-of-consciousness technique is present as before but its presence is subtler, more diffused. The author's scrutiny falls, not on one but on many personalities. Now, in her brilliant offensive on the human soul, she does not perpetrate an open advance. Weaving, stalking, spying from thickets, she discovers...
...Author in her critical studies, The Common Reader, made it apparent that her analytical abilities outweighed her previous achievements in fiction, Jacob's Room, Night and Day. But Mrs. Dalloway and this book mark her as one who has not only mastered the novel but extended its function...