Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEN Professor G. F. Moore writes a foreword to a book, Harvard men must approach the volume with respect. And when he finds "its point of view original and the presentation not only instructive but simulative of thought," most Harvard men will find the book interesting. To erudite readers who search their pages for inaccuracies Professor Moore sounds a warning that "in a work of such wide scope the critical reader will often discover in particulars of fact or of interpretation occasion for doubt or dissent." Bertrand Russell in his review of the book in the New York Nation...
...foreword to the program of Mayor Herriot's melodrama will recall that the incident of the Danish sea captain is historic. The real Napoleon chose surrender and St. Helena, instead of a risky, ignominious flight to America. But the stage Napoleon cries: "In a wine-cask then! Give me five years, and I shall conquer the New World...
Lucrecia Borgia. The incestuous love imputed by historians to Cesare Borgia for his sister, Lucrecia, is perfumed to meet censorship requirements by making him her cousin. This change and the reason for it are naively explained in a foreword to the U. S. edition of the production, which was made by a German company in Rome. It might, at slight expense, have been made in Hollywood, for nothing much is done with Roman street scenes and most of the best shots are interiors. Conrad Veidt, in armor, dies after a broadsword fight with his sister's third husband...
...about to make my point. . " . 2. I am now making my point. ... 3. I have just made my point"-time-honored prescription for effective exposition. No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across. Says he in a luminous foreword to 16 playlets, "I have composed some forty of these plays, for I had discovered a literary form that satisfied my passion for compression. Since the time when I began to read I had become aware of the needless repetition, the complacency in most writing." The form he discovered requires but three minutes and three characters...
...Collins' attractively illustrated work. If such praise sound profuse, the reviewer merely wishes to point out that Hamlin Garland, certainly an authority on the subject, is of the same opinion. In fact, he is even more enthusiastic being a true lover of the country described, and in his foreword tells the reader about Mr. Collins' qualifications to write on the subject...