Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Terrible Typewriter" is the subject of one of the most recent outbursts of literary gentlemen, with a goodly number damning it with artistic fervor and almost as many arguing that its effect, if any upon the author's output is entirely beneficial Obviously like the color of ink this is a personal matter. But some of the more passionate are inclined to blame all the evils of modern literature free verse and the machine like quality of the American newspaper on the unoffending but nevertheless pernicious mechanism...
...vice. Plentifully in evidence is his instinctive plumbing of the human heart, and his flair for real talk in copious draughts. But the searchlight of his realism throws up figures that are drab instead of highly colored. Jacob Ben Ami rather luxuriates in suffering. He pities himself with much fervor. Doris Keane, his costar, shows her customary sensitive discrimination, but reads her lines like the Psalms. Catherine Collins as the street walker is the one splotch of color...
...demanded protestation, an art in which the modern world is deficient. It is an art, however vain, which might restore some fragment of joy and courtesy to Vanity Fair, the only permanent institution on earth. In "A Handful of Pleasant Delights", we see the art practised with simplicity and fervor of soul, too honest and optimistically tussling with versification for the polished and invidious grace of the sonneteers Or at least it is so in the following superb example, which merits instant acceptance as the literal truth. Other verses in the book are more fluent and studied...
...frankness shall be no less than yours, and if, in defense of French interests, I show the same fervor as you in defense of British interests, you may be sure that nothing will ever change the cordiality of my deep-rooted feelings...
...Canby is small, agile, precise. He does not mince words and his opinions are expressed positively and with fervor. He talks rapidly and with clear meaning; but he is also a good listener. He has never allowed his academic knowledge to interfere with a really unusual sense of journalism; but he has never allowed journalism to run away with his sense of true criticism, based upon his academic training. Perhaps he can be rated as our only academic journalist. His admirations are sometimes odd considering his background. He has praised Sherwood Anderson and found reason to admire Black Oxen...