Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand we feel the need for a stricter enforcement of criminal law. The guilty must be punished and punished promptly; public sentimentality toward outrageous criminals must be rebuked. And in the need of the moment we run the danger of striking the innocent with the guilty. These converging circumstances explain the result...
Significant of conditions in the minor feudal states of Indian princes was a statement, last week, by Director-Professor Heck of the Berlin Zoo: "To explain the enormous number of wild beasts killed by native Indian princes during a single hunt is most simple. On the night before a great hunt the haunts of the beasts of prey, especially lions, are strewn with meats containing morphine. When, next day, the drugged beasts are hunted they prove easy game...
...love as real to his twentieth century readers as it was to Tristram and Isolt themselves. He has somewhat altered the story to do so. For example, the love drink is not one mentioned; Tristram and Isolt are consumed by a passion which it needs no magical agency to explain. And in other matters Mr. Robinson has altered his material for his own purposes. In the twelfth century version Isolt was "Isolt la Blonde"; in Malory, she was "La Belle Isond"; Mr. Robinson's Isolt has "night black hair" and "dark splendor" in her eyes. She is thus described...
...they make the poem structurally more successful and plot more clear--they do not mark the fundamental difference between Mr. Robinson and his predecessors. Both Malory and the earlier writers tell the story in terms of action; Mr. Robinson in terms of reflection. What they describe, he attempts to explain. In a word, his characters are self-conscious, fully aware of their situation and continually discussing it (the greater part of the poem consists of conversation) they are not the "possessed" lovers, consumed by a passion they do not attempt to understand, of the medieval story-tellers...
...fundamentally different from his own. Thus she exacts the promise that no questions be asked about her past life if she is to return to the family who so ardently desire her. But the old father's suspicions are aroused, Magda forgets her initial caution and attempts to explain the life she has led away from home. Immediately the colonel's conception of honor is outraged, his family name has been irretrievably degraded, and all the household compassed in the ruin of one daughter. To his stiff-necked, unyielding idea of honor the only remedy lies through the bloody channels...