Word: naã
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...European eye, in America, is a sort of recreant European." But with Hawthorne, Poe, etc.. American literature came to " a real verge." " It's high time now that someone came to life out of the swaddled infant of truth that America spawned some time back," he remarks with na??ve condescension. So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital...
...childlike eagerness. This is the fundamental characteristic of a great reporter, I judge. The world, as it appears to him each morning, is a new world. Events come to him as great God-given phenomena at which he gazes not with the eyes of a visionary but with the na??veté of the fourteen-year-old child which represents the reading public. Add to this na??veté of Mr. Broun's a curiously gentle sympathy for mankind, and a thorough disrespect for snobbery, and you have the man. His opinion of a play is likely to be very near that...