Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Thus in a series of excessively droning monologues Lowell Schmaltz gives himself away to inconceivably long-suffering audiences as a self-satisfied ass thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh...
...first monologue of the series appeared originally in magazine form. The story runs that his publishers cabled Author Lewis suggesting that they set it up in slim book form and sell it for a dollar. The cabled answer: "Hold off. I'll send you more of the same, and we'll sell...
...insistence upon his own boredom with the matter in hand and indifference to the curiosity of his reader, Author Wylie tells his age-old story with gusto, relish, and a naïve zest in his discovery of the differences between two successive generations. Wise enough, perhaps, to know that there is no answer, he offers none...
...Book of the Month Club singles out Author Bowen because of her "news of the post-War generation" (it lacks red blood) and because of her exquisite style. The news has been reported before; the style, like the pension-hotel, is afflicted with anemia...
...book is, of course, copiously illustrated with examples of the types discussed. Here again, though the author cannot hope to include every outstanding structure, he has shown once more his rare catholicy of taste...