Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fiction is concerned we are not disappointed. Mr. Kister, who, judged by his two stories, loves the tactual, tells his grim tale well. Mr. Davidson although we early guess half of the denouement of his romance, nevertheless surprises us with the other half, and throughout the whole tale gives joyously vivid pictures of a West, not yet, we hope, wholly departed. His characters are alive, and the wind blows. In Balked Mr. Raffalovich burlesques certain modern fads, but such fads, even in burlesques, are worth neither the expenditure of Mr. Raffalovich's gifts nor the time of the paper maker...
...place they have won in the Advocate. The stories, too, are well written, though slight and immature artistically, as compared with the verse, and depend too exclusively for their effectiveness upon some simple, strong, unshaded contrast, or upon some element of surprise--extravagant or farcical--in the denouement. Except in "A Fool," by Mr. Putnam, there is little attempt at characterization, and even here it is rather rudimentary. The one article "Concerning the Young Russians" is interesting and well-informed, though more might, with justice, be said for Artsybashey and the philosophical significance and artistic quality of his novels, "Sanine...
...denouement comes after a Professor Garrison acts upon his theory that if his wife loves another, he must let her go to this man because her lover is her true husband "in the eyes of thinking people." The number of such thinking people is fortunately small, and by the unromantic and the unmarried Jane Mason, the situation is saved and the doctor's harem returns to its or their husbands...
...mistakes. "The Crimson Stain," by Mr. Burman, is a grim and hardly a convincing story of a penitent grave-snatcher. The same writer returns to the charge with "The Doctor from Spain." This time he develops an entertaining tale of the adventure of a pretended doctor; after the denouement he seems rather uncertain how to end his story. Mr. Parson has allowed himself hardly enough room, in "Captain Kidd and Crew," in which to manipulate his theme; and within his single page he wastes several sentences in making comments that disclose, for the writer of a story that deals with...
...current number of the Advocate is entertaining reading. Mr. Meeker's briskly told story, "On 'The Street of the Blazing Lights'", presents a mysterious Kentucky major, who is wiser than the world knows,--wiser, indeed, than the reader suspects, till the amusing "denouement," on the famous street, makes one wish that the suspense had lasted longer. More ambitious is Mr. Murdock's "A Change of Heart," which tells how a smug "scientific philanthropist," at last convinced by sad experience of his own inability to help his fellowmen by mere doles of money, is converted, not to a more humane sort...