Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SALTACRES is a second novel with many of the characteristics one associates with a first. There is plot without novelty, capable and charming description overdone to create a sense of mystery, a medley of characters, some drawn, with breadth, and reality, but others idly cast off or, worse still, caricatured from the conventional types used by the Victorian novelists. What the reader bent on analysis more than care free enjoyment most deplores, however, is the failure of the author to use great opportunities. Action takes place on an ancient but ill-kept farm, Saltacres, close by a marshy lake...
...complacent reminder of a sordid interest. It is the dignified reminder of the willingness of the modern Harvard to ally herself with the contemporary world, to train men for the duties and needs of that world; and it is the dignified, vital reminder of the energy, generosity, breadth of mind of leaders in business...
Unlike the Oxford book, however, Mr. Gay has not restricted himself to the poets of England alone. One finds Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Eleanor Wylie, Vachel Lindsay, and others, listed with an admirable breadth of taste. On the other hand, the old favorites do not suffer from this inclusive grouping. In some six hundred pages the anthologist has managed to gather together the finest of the old and still he has found space for examples of the new. When it is realized that he has also given many excerpts from longer works--such as from Shakespeare's plays and from...
...First Lord of the Admiralty: "[Lord Oxford and] Asquith is like a drunken man walking along a straight line-the farther he goes the sooner he falls." T. P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons": "[Of the Empress Frederick of Germany I may say that] her breadth of mind was masculine in its depth...
...Oedipus the King" in Greek 11 at 12 o'clock in Sever 26. Of the trinity of Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes, Sophocles is generally regarded as the greatest. He lacks the stiffness, yet retains the force of Aeschylus, and although he does not have the breadth and finesse of Euripedes, he does not lose the power which Euripedes, in his development of the tragedy has lost...