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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Private Suhren is a definitely more matrue volume than these, and while it does not provide the grisly enjoyment that fills the soul on reading of a well-executed atrocity, it excels in honest naturalness, and reels its story out in the staccato What Price Glory manner that fits modern...
...nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal relationship, as in American democracy at its inception. For modern times, when the patriarchal form of government is constantly losing ground, and when democracy is tending "to reduce all things,--government, art, literature and morals,--to the vulgar level of mediocrity," Mr. Denison proposes what he calls the anepsiarchal system, based on the relationship not of father and sons...
There is nothing startlingly new, of course, in this plan. It is an adaptation of Plato's groups of gold and brass and iron men to the needs of a more heterogeneous society than existed in Periclean Athens. But there is a sensible presentation of the modern problem with sensible emphasis on the need for right feeling among representative men. The ideas are not presented with as much persuasiveness as might be wished. Outstanding is the annoying fault of unnecessary repetition of phrases and explanations, as for example the constant definition of mana and miasma, which in the 538 pages...
...brilliant color of modern university life seems to be fading from a flaming crimson into the more delicate mauve of solidarity. Like opera girls and Memorial Hall dining room, the old traditions are becoming passe, for now the carefree Lothario who whisks by in his shining roadster must give way to the more sedate touring car of the happily married student with the wife and little strangers. In the coeducational University of Washington, marriage among the undergraduates is even being promoted by the faculty on the grounds that those who have the responsibility of a wife get better grades...
PRACTICALLY all modern mystery-detective stories conform to a certain general formula, subject to variations to suit the individual author, of course. There are very clearly defined elements which crop out in every one, sometimes in a slightly different guise, but always distinguishable for what they are. The reason for this recurrence is obvious; these elements are the ones which interest the public and sell the books, and the author has no choice but to include them. Thus we have the love affair between the two principles, gradually developing and providing the happy ending, the clever sleuth, the shifting...