Word: epigrammed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nameless Frenchman made a six-word epigram,? Lion Feuchtwanger has made a 780-page book; neither has exhausted their common subject. Of the two, Feuchtwanger's version deserves the wider circulation, for he has written a near-masterpiece...
...royal brush the Son of Heaven had painted ideographs meaning: I muse on the strength of the rocks Enduring the ceaseless beating of the waves On the rugged shores. There was no more, for poems in the best Japanese classic style of vers de societe are always short, frequently epigram matic. Such poems are intended not to mirror thought, but to stimulate it. Among the greatest Japanese epigrams are a sequence of three...
Oscar Wilde once polished off an epigram to the effect that selfishness is not doing what one pleases but in trying to make others do what one pleases. Be that as it may, this genial writer can't help offering suggestions for others to read anymore than he can refrain from bouncing in delightedly on some unsuspecting lecture which offers the unusual. Besides he hasn't burst into print for a long time and probably won't again until this serious business of guiding his youthful adherents into entertaining classrooms begins again...