Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George S. Kaufman, in collaboration this time with Miss Katharine Dayton, has proved himself something of a doctrinaire in "First Lady". The requirement, of course, was that the doctrine be silly enough to stir up amusement, if not enthusiasm, in American audiences. American audiences haven't pledged themselves, and don't intend to pledge themselves, to anything politically serious. So Mr. Kaufman declares over the interval of two jolly hours that wives are the only things that make the Washington merry-go-round go 'round. Not content with having put love in the White House along with a Mr. Wintergreen...
...Imagists is more historically than intrinsically important. Witter Bynner spoke pointedly when he said that "the imagists note with admirable accuracy all sorts of small adventures of the nerves," while they were aparently incapable of the larger adventures of the heart and head. Mr. Damon's championship of Miss Lowell's verse is at once gallant and learned, and the elaborate exegesis that he gives for each of the longer poems is worth having--for reference, at least; yet the 1930's remain unconvinced and will no doubt continue to read Amy Lowell in the anthologies...
...until her death. She was never more magnificent than when confronted by ill-natured opponents in a lecture-room. On the other hand, there was never a fairer opponent than she, nor one more ready to make friends again. Yet polemics provided but one channel for the immense energy Miss Lowell devoted to the cause. It is good to learn that her patronage, far from being the indiscriminate largesse to favorites and bribery of editors that Pound and other charged, was on the contrary tactfully and intelligently bestowed. As a propagandist, her industry in writing about poets and poetry...
...Damon has accomplished something of a miracle in selecting and arranging the veritable mountains of material he had at his disposal. From her infant days Miss Lowell preserved her diaries, her books, her themes; and there are even paper-dolls available for those who wish to study the origins of genius. The immense mass of her correspondence is but the center of a vast collection of biographical data; every scrap of print about her that clipping bureaus could furnish--and for a dozen years her name was always copy--is carefully preserved. In view of this profusion...
...first novel Miss Mitchell's is an astonishing four de force. It is easy to believe that she spent seven years in writing it. It was born to be a beat-seller and no one but could be glad that it is. Tremendonaly long, dealing with the period of our greatest national crisis, written moreover from the losing (and of action and skillful characterisation, it is an experience that the American reader would be foolish to disregard...