Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Meyer Hirsch tells the story of his life. First and foremost he was a Jew. Later he was a professional Jew-the Jew in politics. On a keen December evening "in ramshackle New York during the sprawling awkward age of its growth," Meyer, only child of sweatshop workers, grandson of a horse thief, returns from cheder (Hebrew school) to the "two little dark rooms in a rear house, kerosene lamps, water from the yard pump, toilet in back yard . . not even enough crockery or eating things," occupied by his parents and maternal uncle, Philip Gold. Nine years...
MASQUERADE-Ben Ray Redman- Me Bride ($1.50). An interesting young critic who is one of the best translators we have collects his verse. Influence of T. S. Eliot, influence of sonnets, classic and modern, some satire, pleasingly keen, capability, technique, promise, no great originality, a mind that has not quite found itself, a voice a little too fond of the accent of other poetic voices. But still, capability, technique, promise-no more unusual promise than in the case of several others, but indubitably present nevertheless...
...These poems," we read, "combine to an unusual degree the vigorous philosophy and keen vitality of the younger generation, with a clear but subtle, and exquisitely wrought beauty of form. Robert Wolf is almost the only young man whose poetry displays, in highly masculine terms, the strength and symmetry so sharply exemplified in the work of America's newer women poets." We doubt if this short book of twenty-three poems could have much better criticism--of the favorable kind...
...fruitful subject for editorial dissertation for so long that almost every possible aspect has been not only covered, but buried under the weight of philosophical argument and all kinds of analysis. But there are several remarks about the Christmas carol services which it is necessary to make. A keen observer, by reading a few of the signs posted in conspicuous places, might have discovered that the ground floor was reserved for the "Faculty and friends," and for "Students and friends," while the gallery was reserved for "Harvard and Radcliffe students only." After a certain period, when it was considered that...
...achieved lasting fame. Messrs. Rice, Rehm, and Buffam, however, are after nothing so ridiculous. What they hope to discover is a new and dazzling type of feminine beauty. They may fail: it would seem scarcely credible that any cranny of the earth remained still hid from Mr. Zeigfield's keen-eyed scouts. And failing, they will be ridiculously ridiculous where Ponce de Leon was sublimely so. But the world will hope for their success, if only to see what a shock Mr. Zeigfield would receive to find the "Geryon" loaded with beauties actually discovered by somebody else...