Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college she migrated to Greenwich Village. The contrast between Washington Square and her home town of Rockland, Me., was great; but it did not disconcert her. She soon became a legend. Her poetry was widely read, her charms widely heralded. She was a poet of renown and even more brilliant as a personality. Tiring soon, however, of the Bohemian life of the Village she went to Europe with her mother. There she stayed, as a part of the American colony in Paris; then, for a time, in England. This Spring she again sought America. When one saw her, she seemed...
Where does this brilliant young poetess rank among our present-day versifiers? Her lyrics are more moving to me than those of Sara Teasdale or Elinor Wylie; but on the other hand one can think of no woman poet who has quite achieved the breath and flashing brilliance of Amy Lowell. Miss Millay's is a different gift. I should be inclined to rank her second, then, in importance among our women poets, and remembering Lindsay, Frost and Robinson, sixth or seventh among our contemporary versifiers...
...readily perceive that such an imponderable plot must be fashioned mainly of talk. Since the talk is consistently bright and often brilliant the lack of incident is not a serious setback...
...Blythe said in part: "The real defect of the Harding Administration, as it reacts on the people, is that it doesn't make noise enough. It isn't showy enough. It is too calm. . . . This man Harding is neither noisy nor brilliant, in the showy acceptance of that term. He is not loud and declamatory. He is a modest man?too modest, no doubt ?and a calm man, and a man with a philosophy that has not worked out so badly, as will be shown. . . . "How much work does the President do? ... Rudolph Forster has been executive clerk...
...children." The opposite position came down to the contention that " the public schools did produce gentlemen," and the conclusive proposition that the country wasn't suffering under a curse anyway. Naturally the audience voted overwhelmingly for the negative. And Lady Astor concluded the proceedings by saying : " Here were brilliant young men not believing a word they said, and yet saying it with wit and charm. It made one feel a dread about the future of a democracy." But the debate held in the interests of charity, not faith or hope...