Word: grace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The polish, the precision, the elaborate grace and subterranean acridity of Mr. Cabell's characteristic style have never been displayed to better advantage than in this, which is among the very bitterest of his books. He is not afraid of coarseness, but he is not afraid of beauty?and in The High Place he has molded beauty and coarseness and sadness and horror and wit and defiant laughter together in a strangely complete and unique achievement...
...York Times: "... a false paganism, a sophisticated grace. . . . The effect is one of conscious insincerity...
...sophisticated maypole of their own futility. Pickled peacock stuffed with pistachio-nuts-champagne and liquid cream-cheese-a witty, mordant extravaganza of modern fools and fribbles and farceurs and fakers, at times moving, at times a little rancid, always pyrotechnic-an English Blind Bow-Boy with infinitely more brilliance, grace and bite...
...HAMPSHIRE-Robert Frost- Holt ($2.50). "A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes " by the author of North of Boston. The air of New England landscapes-the smell of Winter and pine-boughs and New England's hesitant Spring. Fine work, finely presented, in a volume whose physical make...
...inaugural address is a rhetorical model, a perfect illustration of the use of topic sentence and so forth; and to a certain extent an illustration of how stupid the sue of mechanical rules alone can be. The baccalaureate sermon, on the other hand, is replete with dignity and yet grace; while the prophecy of the next hundred years is filled with almost poetic fire. Almost all through the book, except in the inaugural address, there is a lilt to the words that is akin to the Homeric. And throughout there is a vividness of picture and choice of words...