Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...choice of words which is to manifest in all of Stevenson's works, said: "The willingness to be satisfied with the wrong word, the wrong color, is the sign of an inferior author. A brilliant writer is the last one who can afford to be false or fatuous." He read several extracts from different works of Stevenson, including the dueling scene between the brothers in "The Master of Ballantrae," and characterized Stevenson as the writer of "the burning-glass style." He admitted that several of Stevenson's best scenes were from borrowed ideas, but said: "Originality does not lie with...