Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure of marriage has been brought about by self-intoxication: self-consciousness has paralyzed all activity. The social unit of the future must be the pair, man and woman forming a complementary personality. It is unfortunate that the author, after posing the question so carefully, in a beautifully written book of such symmetrical structure, has offered his solution in too great a hurry with too much enthusiasm, with a too easy utopianism. This fault, which ran all through the "Goose Man," is a mark of immaturity, not of the author, but of his generation...
...Author. It is 28 years since The Gentleman from Indiana was published. Newton Booth Tarkington was then a young Princeton graduate living in Indianapolis. He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus. His position in national letters is analogous to what Princeton feels. The Henry van Dykes, ever revered, belong to an age gone by. The Scott Fitzgeralds, ever provocative, may belong to an age to come. The Tarkingtons, craftsmen and satirists whose conscience and good manners are not disturbed...
...course, Lena. The book confuses not only the mind but the emotions too, mixing so much to condemn with much to admire. The characters are presented in subjective flashes, bright, sensitive but jumbled; a psychological kaleidoscope. Speaking all their half-thoughts out loud, and many more of the author's, the mother coughs and booms, Daley sings, puppies whine, Clifford grumbles, Lena moans, a Chinaman squeaks, the doctor quacks . . . the reader de- spairs...
...Author Benson, British, is married to an Irishman and lives in Manchuria. She raises hounds, plays the guitar...
...Author, a Christian, son of an old merchant family, a journalist and essayist of high and cosmopolitan reputation, received as his first royalty on The City Without Jews a bullet which killed him, fired in cold blood by a 20-year-old Nordic caller, who later said he was proud to have struck such a blow for Kultur...