Word: epigrames
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AREN'T WE ALL?-One of those drawing room trifles which make the epigram seem the worthiest pursuit...
...Camel's Back. Playwright Maugham herein concerned himself with an irresponsible investigation of the regions of the utterly inane. He involved himself in such a feathery swirl of epigram and complication that along in Act II he found that he simply could not make his wits' ends meet. He gave up trying...
...based upon a careful brief. The British debate lacked logical arrangement and satisfaction. The Americans were communications in their one of evidence citing their authorities observing strict syllogistic and having generalizations upon representative cases. The British showed are such conscientiousness. But the British speakers excelled in wit and epigram. Their appeal to the audience was more direct and winningly informal they allowed time for interesting by play. In brief, the American and British methods of training debaters appear to differ in much the same war at the American and British methods of training athletes...
...those who use criticism as a substitute for the reading of the classics, and it is the glory of his criticism that he kept it ever an open door to the knowledge of literary masterpieces at first hand. He was a master of trenchant phraseology, but he never permitted epigram to degenerate into verbal trickery. Keenly satirical, he was in tolerant only of hypocrisy and the wealth of kindliness that lay behind the satire made him able to rebuke without bitterness. There was in his genius something of that universality which marks the truly constructive scholar. He made no pretense...
...write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation...