Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as the total lack of scenery calls for considerable Imaginative response on the part of the spectator, so the extreme sentimentality of the play and its absorption in commonplace people call for a good deal of sympathetic for bearance. The necessary imagination is very easily mustered by everyone, and...
English Critic Frank Swinnerton has said that Huxley "may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come." However much they admire Huxley's encyclopedic knowledge and acid wit, followers are likely to balk at the regimen he...
Mr. X '41 (we shall conceal his identity partly from compassion, but more, perhaps, because we do not know it), emerged from Massachusetts Hall muttering surprise that he should be given the key to his mailbox rather than the mailman.
A LETTER TO ROBERT FROST AND OTHERS, the first book of poems by Robert S. Hillyer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, is now before the public. How poetry lovers will take to Mr. Hillyer's latest work is unpredictable, for in his lambic couplets he has attempted to sound that soothing...
To Americans whose eyes are still smarting from the unhappy ending of the Wall Street fairy tale of 1929, John Steinbeck's little dream story will not seem out of line with reality; they may even overlook the fact that it too is a fairy tale. An oxymoronic combination...