Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for a sincere author to put so much intense feeling into a book that it becomes stuffy, stifling. Author Smith's sincerity is evident and creditable, but the conflicts in the minds of his characters, though perfectly imaginable, are poorly imagined. They have not been viewed with sufficient perspective to prevent their growing maudlin. The action is unbalanced. It wobbles off into a mist of emotion and disappears from sight. Author Smith's last book, Topper (1926), was in a happier, lighter, suburban vein to which his readers may well wish he would return...
...Author Marshall has contrived a credible and moving history of an idealist who pursued other phantoms than those chased by big businessmen and shady politicians in the late years of the last century, but he has allowed his selective faculty to droop. There is divagation, fumbling with incidents and words. Force penetrates these defects; in spite of them the story progresses, with power but without smoothness, like an ore truck with one square wheel...
...author, a recent graduate of this institution, confines herself to the girl's college alone; but if, as she seems to think, higher education at one of the best feminine institutions is nothing more than a farce, it would be too sanguine to suppose that even the top rank of men's universities are above criticism. Unfortunately for Miss Warfield, however, she does not prove her case. She says with the satiric generalization which has become popular in the last decade, that the typical "college woman." If she hered; and, largely as a result of this veneer, thin but adequate...
...dancing and delicate wit inhabit Author Wassermann's mediaeval romancing to a far greater extent than his sombre psychological studies of modern Germany (Gold, Faber, Wedlock). Translator Otto P. Shinnerer puts no strings across the bright lawn of prose on which Author Wassermann's imagination whirls in a dexterous Bergamask...
...Author. James Weldon Johnson is a 55-year-old product of Jacksonville, Fla. He attended Atlanta, Columbia and Howard Universities, taught school a while, then entered the musical comedy business in Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...