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...love story, in the first place, becomes a delicate, powerful study in reticences. Charm conquers incredibility when, on 24 hours' notice, Mercedes Garcia of polyglot Pennsylvania origin marries Stephen Londreth, rancher-runaway from Philadelphia's aristocracy. The continental poetry of Wyoming, in the second place, emerges with clarity and sublimity; from the grave, racy, accurate talk of cowmen about their animals, to the ineffable silence of mountain ranges. The serious thesis, finally, that men are better outdoors than in; that the Antaeus myth is sober truth; that cities bury their builders' souls, is argued with a militance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Antaeus Attested | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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