Word: evenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentimentality: "If Swift were alive today, he would be the adored, the baroneted, the Order-of-Merited author, not of Gulliver, not of The Tale of a Tub, not of the Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable. Even his epigrams have ceased to be annoyingly clever. If he still shocks, it is by the force of his idea rather than by his modern manners: "Normality is only a question of statistics." Other books: Antic Hay, Two or Three Graces, Point Counter Point...
Contrasted with Vance and his native thirst for literature are Halo and Lewis Tarrant, products of the civilized and cosmopolitan world which Mrs. Wharton knows and likes the best. But in this story she has given her favorites the meagerer parts. Vance's honest bluntness is thrown into even bolder relief by their futile sophistication, their self-deluding cleverness...
HANNA-Thomas Beer-Knopf ($4). The Man. "Hanna's luck" was proverbial, but like so many easy explanations of success it will not bear scrutiny. Even in business he had his ups and downs; in politics no less. For five years he, a millionaire, tried to make a newspaper pay, and failed. But he was lucky in his name. That name, with its blended suggestions of some old Roman or Carthaginian proconsul, was no title for a mediocrity; Mark Hanna sounded best as either a bum or a conqueror. He was a conqueror. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, son of Leonard...
...Even Wets Don't Saloon Back
Sixth, the chief argument of the west is based on the word "can't." "Prohibition can't be enforced" is their chief stock in trade. If, even in its present state of partial enforcement, it is better that what it displaced, why not say frankly that it has done a great deal of good, but hadn't accomplished all that was expected of it. If that is not true, why are the wets so vociferous in proclaiming that they do not want the saloon back? If it is true, why not admit it frankly and then see what is next...