Word: overfond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until the night of the shooting there were very few people who thought that Stanford White was overfond of gaieties. His friends debated, instead, whether Stanford White or Charles F. McKim was the ablest member of the famous firm of McKim, Mead & White. Stanford White was a man widely respected, for his wit and position as much as for his unusual talents: he was a member of the best clubs in Manhattan, the husband of a charming woman. If you wanted a house built, and had money, you went to Stanford White...
That he does not quite know what he is trying to say, that he does not quite understand himself, that he is over-impressed by Freudian psychology and sex symbols, that he is overfond of dwelling on the pathological and perverted, that all this belongs in the medical laboratory rather than in the ranks of literature?that is my general opinion. However, I must say that I am frequently caught by what I do feel is, occasionally, a beautifully rhythmical style, and, at his unpleasantest, some times, a singularly moving power, as in I Want to Know Why, Brothers...