Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cool crisp autumn...
...refined lady infected with medievalism is married to a rich banker. Finding in his library a copy of Boccaccio's stories made doubly suggestive by "piquant illustrations," she reads them greedily. This, as first act rhetoric has drilled the audience to expect, produces a potent effect on the cool bride; she becomes coy, passionate, kittenish. The dialogue is a rigid translation from the Italian; like the direction and the acting, it is excessively clumsy...
...other poems are an interesting group of songs and sighs; some awkward and untamed like children at their first party; some cool and keenly expressive of a poised and brave linguist. For great audacity is revealed in the fact that the book contains not only self-expression in English but reveries and sighs in Latin and German...
...unsatisfactoriness of creative effort today is largely a result of the unsatisfactoriness of higher education. Consequently there is a lack of culture, a fact which renders Mr. Mencken's "verbal virtuosity" possible, and results in the creative instinct being stified in a welter of "idealism." Professor Babbitt in his cool analysis of facts succeeds in being distinctly more pessimistic and convincing than his arch-opponent in the lists of contemporary criticism...
...Evening News), brother of the late and greatest British news titan, Viscount Northcliffe; and 2) William Mawell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (Daily Express and Evening Standard), a self-made Canadian, still sometimes referred to as "that bounder", but generally accorded the respect due a man who has made a cool £1,000,000 in business and then "retired" to enjoy the sport of maneuvering himself into the peerage...