Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point the frivolous poet appends an incomprehensible commentating clause. Sentence (4) is a compression of the defects of the "Letters" at large. Sordid subjects, prevalent among social novelists are ridiculed; a digression is made on obscurity; this obscurity is commented on; and the sentence lamely concludes declaring that one must ponder whether matter or style is more vile. Artistically the word "vices" is wishful and unproven; Mr. Hillyer's couplets have not made tangible that confusion is a vice and what he actually means is: "Their only consistency is inconsistency." The word "except" is grammatically unsupported, and "consistently...
Even those Harvard skiiers who must study now can get in some good skiing in an afternoon by only driving forty-five miles to Brookline, New Hampshire. Those who can afford a week-end vacation can go to mountains father away, either by automobile or by train...
CONTAINING plays, essays, poetry, fiction, and dreams of twenty-nine writers, "New Directions," a volume of experimental writing, has much that is good, much that is not good, and some that must be left uncriticized...
Laughlin applauds the sociological approach of Chase to language and quickly adds that linguistic change must lead the way for social change. Regarding language from the poet's point of view, he recognizes its value as the life-breath of civilization and also its mortality. But language has become the master of thinking, and to check this corruption Laughlin advocates a system of education that will teach words and ideas separately. His ideas no language and experimental writing--which tries to remedy language deficiency--form one of the essays in his volume. It is convenient to criticize the other work...
...Stein and Cummings appear to go too far in the bypath of experimental writing, Saroyan and Schwartz advance exactly far enough. Granted that the fight against the decay of language must be positive and militant, the leaders of semantics should realize that their experimental writing cannot be absurd or incomprehensible to that sector of society against whom their offensive must be strongest: to the mass...