Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...available medium. For her mastery of it Mrs. Parker ought to be remembered with Ring Lardner. It is true that absolute objectivity, for all but the greatest writers, is an impossible attitude to maintain, and Mrs. Parker does not always maintain it. But by the time the reader becomes conscious that Mrs. Parker is grinning derisively at her characters as she writes, he realizes that he is grinning derisively himself...
...class. The only flaw to be found in John Barrymore's gothically elaborate characterization of a dramatic personage in a forceful, facile story is the fact that he never for an instant seems to be the Jew he is supposed to be. Good shot: a plaintively self-conscious clerk inviting Lawyer Simon's secretary out to lunch...
Whit Burnett and Martha Foley, I fear, have been more successful with the magazine than they have been with the anthology which contains only a few outstanding short stories. First, I shall touch briefly on the self-conscious authors who treat sex sensationally, and badly; into this category come Bruce Brown, Erskine Caldwell, James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description...
...called the German Health Service Committee, readily admitting that it will have nothing to do with promoting "health" in the usual sense. The Service will promote fewer births among Germans of Jewish blood, more births among "pure German men and women, each of whom must be made more conscious of his or her biological value...
...other things Mr. Day got the ear of President William E. Levis of Owens-Illinois Glass, who bought 40,000 shares of National Distillers for his bottle company. That deal on top of the famed whiskey dividend (one case, pre-prohibition, for each five shares) made Wall Street acutely conscious of National Distillers. In last summer's boom its stock hit a high of $124. Last month National Distillers contributed the first major stock-split to the New Deal market-three...