Word: jamesian
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...symbol of our age, with his two-for-a-cent dream life manufactured by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and his real life a complex of frustration. There is space only to mention Irwin Shaw's three stories, Christopher Isherwood's extraordinary "I Am Waiting" and Mark Schorer's un-Jamesian "Portrait of Ladies...
...military idea in the head of Mr. May, it traveled a long road. Young Mr. Roosevelt as a fledgling New York State Legislator began early to boost conservation. Later as Governor he put 10,000 unemployed on Conservation projects. By the time of his first inaugural in Washington the Jamesian idea of CCC had grown into a definite plan, as he informed Congress in his first message on Unemployment Relief...
Author Joseph Hergesheimer, middleaged, fat, placid, writes with great care and with such involved, Henry-Jamesian qualification that he sometimes irritates. But he always manages to spin a compelling yarn. A Pennsylvania "Dutchman" (German), he was left some money at 21, began to write because he helped a woman novelist read her proof, disliked what he read. His first story he rewrote 20 times, parts of it 100 times; did not succeed in selling a story till 14 years later. He lives well in West Chester, Pa., collects antiques, is married. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Quiet Cities, Tubal...
...Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after the pioneering of Virginia Woolf and others, a feeble gait...