Word: fragmentism
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...warmth of affection practised by the knights and poets of Elizabeth's reign 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...
...What has been presented in the public hearings constitutes but a fragment of what has developed since the investigation began last March, both in regard to the neglect of the disabled, and corruption and waste in the Veterans' Bureau...
...profit." Shipowners and operators object vociferously to the plan of Government operation (TIME, June 18) announced by Albert D. Lasker before his retirement as Chairman of the Shipping Board. The Board in turn is willing to accept none of the owners' and operators' counter proposals. A fragment of the solution was achieved, however, by two sales to private owners...
...Wellington Koo, Acting Foreign Minister (in name the present ruler of China, because there is no President, only a fragment of a Cabinet, no Prime Minister, no Parliament and no likelihood of there being one), received a note from the Diplomatic Corps at Peking on the bandit incident of last May.* The note was signed by the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba. The imposing document was delivered at the Chinese Foreign Office by Senhor Frei tas, Portuguese Minister to China and doyen of the Diplomatic Corps...
...mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess, whose sonorous name appropriately terminates the simple lyric...