Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return, however, to Howells. In his time he was considered the foremost exponent of the realistic school of American literature. His is not the sordid realism of a Dreiser, but perhaps it is none the less realistic for that. We are not all degenerates and abnormals. Howells purpose was to give us a picture of life as it is, with all its little common, ordinary happenings, and yet to make the reader like it, and see the inner meaning behind everything. In this aim he succeeded admirably, enrichening his stories with a humor that rings very true. In "The Rise...
...those officers trying to protect the goal-posts after the Princeton football game, and I know how those boys act," he said, "I like all the Harvard and Princeton boys, but they are altogether too rough. True, none of us were hurt during the fracas, but at the same time, some of our old bones were given a few hard bumpe...
...Absolutely forbidden, under whatever circumstances, are: lockouts by employers; strikes by employes; sabotage by anyone. The employer must employ. The worker must work. None may damage the engines of production...
...author Rolland's effort to study a woman as he studied a man in his ten-volume Jean-Christophe. In Annette and Sylvie (Vol. I), the heroine, Annette, has her illegitimate son by Roger Brissot. In Summer (VoL II) she continues her emotional development, with three men, none of whom is quite the right one. Presumably, happiness awaits her in Vol. IV, now being prepared. Author Rolland, feminist as well as pacifist, is anxious to make Annette self-sufficient, Woman triumphant. With his gathering years, however, his writing shows a less continuous alertness to the boundary which divides emotion...
When one considers what "Pickwick" might have been one is moved to arise and give-loud and prolonged hosannas to its producers. True, the play in itself is a none too inspired dramatization of scenes from "The Pickwick Papers", but it is blessed with what the billboards advertise--and for once correctly--as "a cast that Dickens himself would have chosen". The first night audience, harboring ominous misgivings as to a twentieth century Pickwick, burst into relieved applause when the curtain rose on the excellent representation of the court of the White Hart Inn, and kept applauding...