Word: navajos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very effective when employed with moderation by such skillful hands as those of Kipling, who is probably the chief sponsor of the device; but since all followers are likely to exaggerate the tricks of their masters, it is a dangerous instrument for indiscriminate use. In the "Translation from the Navajo", the vicissitudes through which the author has to pass in his search for the realization of his dream are narrated with a painful vagueness. It is all very well to claim that such a method enhances the desired mysticism or the exotic Indian atmosphere; but technical devices should not become...
...Arrow-Head", the descriptions of the apartment in New York and of the farm in the Middle West are typical examples of the straining after a vivid and detailed presentation of the milieu, quite in the manner of "Main Street". The story in the "Translation from the Navajo", despite the author's agreeable lightness of touch, and gift for fanciful invention, is well-high lost in the atmosphere. The sentiment of the verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic and apparently sincere, the technical frame-work is successful; but here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting...