Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dramatis personae of the story, as here told, are 16, counting the author and beginning with a handsome, athletic Greek aristocrat who, because of his broad shoulders was called Plato (427-347 B. C.). During populist chaos in Athens, Plato joined the "thinking games" of a homely old idler, Socrates. After the latter had been obliged to swallow hemlock, the pupil proposed exchanging mob government for a Republic ruled by its best intellects. He conceived absolute values for Good, Justice and similar abstractions, a realm of ideals of which ordinary life was but the dim shadow. Aristotle...
Having elected to resurrect the people who saw the last century out,* Author Beer found that Painter Whistler had cracked out a title for him. "Mauve?" Whistler had mused. "Mauve is just pink trying1 to be purple...
Orators caught up the phrase. From the World's Fair, the stage, current literature, the mouths of suffragettes, Author Beer sweeps together damaging evidence of the rise of the U. S. "Titaness," who now "drifts toward middle age without valour, charm or honor," after inventing "cheap cruelty and low social pressures...
...portraits: Angela, drifting through life in search of something upon which to "settle"; Leslie, reminiscent of "a whipped puppy and a grocer's assistant in his Sunday best"; Juliet's father who uses "men's words" and hates Miss Tiverton, who has never called. The anonymous author is presumably a charming sensitive lady with no nonsense about her. She understands neighborhood metaphysics. Rowdy...
COUNT BRUGA - Ben Hecht- Boni & Liveright ($2). Author Hecht is a rowdy. Often he is also a wit; sometimes, a philosopher. He has lavished all three talents on this latest volume, and if you cannot stand rowdies, do not read it. If you can stand them, you are certain to double up now and again over the libidinous antics of Jules Ganz, alias the "Count" (for whom, it is said, Author Hecht's friend and playmate, Poet Maxwell Bodenheim, furnished a vague original...