Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above all to John Livingston Lowes, master and friend," Mr. Calvert attempts an explanation of the "romantic paradox" of Byron through an analysis of his poems. Byron, Mr. Calvert holds, did not at one time depend upon the school of Pope and at another skip blithely to the romantic manner. The critic presents a consistent Byron, a man who contained in himself elements of both classicist and romanticist, at all times sincere; and not spasmodically, but progressively ridding himself of the superficial aspects of each until he reached his height in "Don Juan...
...There is no reason why a compulsory fee for exercise should not be levied in the manner of the Infirmary fee," he writes. "The facilities provided are infinitely better, and they provide for the student on the many days that he is well, rather than on the few when...
...last week in Manhattan William Aloysius Galvin, 27, founder-president of the Inside Bakery Workers Federal Labor Union No. 19585, uprose to present his case to the startled Uneeda stockholders. In a thoroughly dignified manner, he asked them to consider the loss of business and good will the strike was causing. The whole affair was unfortunate, he declared, because neither the strikers nor the owners wanted the company to suffer...
Like her characters, Elizabeth Madox Roberts is not afraid of grandeur, and she approaches her stories with conscious dignity. And in her majestic entrances and exits she rarely catches her foot in the mat. But the grandness of her manner, which was increasingly impressive in The Time of Man and The Great Meadow, has now reached such a pitch that readers cannot hope to come near her without taking off their workaday shoes and donning reverential slippers. Many a reader will consider life too short for such sartorial efforts; but for those who do not, Author Roberts has some solemn...
Only an average-length novel (255 pp.), He Sent Forth a Raven took Author Roberts five years to write, makes correspondingly slow reading. Author Roberts' tricks of style, which include a growing fondness for the ablative absolute, have hardened into a mannered manner that is more poetry than prose. And her narrative, never rapid, has turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again...