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...students in the University. The paintings and drawings in the Harvard Art Association area not great pieces of art, but they are interesting as experiments in technique and use of materials. Some of the contributions area imitative and do not represent definite, individual expression. Others area crude abstractions which convey little or no meaning. But despite this general criticism, three of the five exhibitors show promise and talent...
Your story on McCarthy . . . managed to convey the impression that, maybe way deep down, he is, after all, a pretty good...
...might not be trying to praise him with faint damns. Surely even a Liberal ought to have good intentions; and what does bridge-playing indicate in a politician,.except maybe a liking for bridge? And when you say that he bumbles . . . what is it that you wish to convey? Does he hum like a bee, cry like a bittern, bungle, blunder, bustle, or muffle...
...Mister Johnson is considerably more than the portrait of a picaresque primitive. In a short novel, Cary has managed to convey the squalor of African village existence, the frustrations of English officials and the enormous volatility and friendliness of the Nigerian native. Novelist Cary, unlike most of his fellow practitioners, always seems to write as if he enjoyed it. In Mister Johnson his pleasure edges every sentence...
...made another jump, turned round, pointed out of the window, and said in a loud voice something like "twanky tweedle." Both knew that neither the gesture nor the phrase was meant to convey a meaning. They simply expressed the fact that for Tom this was an important and exciting, a very special occasion...