Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intransitive - cannot be used with an object...
...waste valuable space in your columns publishing such vapid letters as that of Charles A. Boston [TIME, June 6], who wishes to create the impression that he is so busy that he cannot stop occasionally to read something that will keep him abreast of the times. That doesn't interest your readers. He must have been the man, a friend of whom wanted to give him a book for a birthday gift, hearing of which another friend said: No, don't give him a book...
...course, entre nous, you are forced to be servile to public opinion, and cannot call your mind your own-when you are in your office. Your refusal of Haldeman-Julius's advertising must have made you keep away from mirrors for a while. I have been surprised at the class of periodicals he has entered with his advertising, and believe you would be safe in taking...
...applause still acclaiming the Erskine novels, he has committed nothing than une gaucherie. Before the reader has sipped at "Cleopatra's Diary" he has recalled the merits and defects of "Galahad" and adopted a standard of critical comparison which the latest exploit of ancient and medieval virtues and vices cannot begin to approach. For Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, sorceress of the Nile, is as distinctive because of her wickedness as Galahad is because of his virture. Erskine shoved Galahad from his pedestral and shook the temple of his shrine to its very foundation. Thomas knocked Cleopatra from an equal height...
...Tonio Kroeger" begins where "Buddenbrooks" ended. Again a boy in school, his first friendship and love, and then the author's actual experience, the passions and suffering of artistic life. It is not the romantic southern sky, the "Bellaza" that he cares for. He cannot suppress his northern inclinations, his preference for Denmark rather than Italy; and artist though he may be by profession, and may feel himself to be-his closest friend tells him that at the bottom of his heart he is not an artist-but a bourgeois gone astray. It is a hard judgement, but he accepts...