Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Thurber Dennison 199 *Chester Harding King, Jr. 180 *Carl Albert Pescosolido 180 *John Moore Morse 179 Taggert Whipple 159 Andrew Eliot Ritchie, Jr. 149 Clifton Lane Jackson 134 Charles Aston Rossiter 122 Henry Greenleaf Pearson, Jr. 119 William Thomas Piper, Jr. 109 Henry Ehrlich, 2d 91 John Parker Hale Chandler, Jr. 76 Harry Morris Plotkin 55 ALBUM COMMITTEE *David Weld 299 *James Parton 219 *Sidney Carroll 217 *Gordon Chase Streeter 210 *Henry Charles Thacher 175 George Huntington Damon 167 Cyrus Leo Sulzberger 152 Richard Lawrence Stites 142 Robert Blaine Murray, Jr. 132 Daniel Wortham Litscher 110 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
Among U.S. writers who share this ambition, Dorothy Parker is one of the best artists, as she is one of the most popular. From the first story, "Horsie," in which she creates a feeling of pathos in the reader by firmly withholding it in herself, to the derisive portrait of an actress called "Glory in the Daytime," her objective skill never falters in making vivid ordinary conversations motivated only by busy curiosity and vapid malice. No one else has her ability to make casual human types seem abysmally fatuous. Just as good in their way are the three or four...
...delusion: the most ornate style conceivable might be as perfect and "invisible" a projection of the narrative fact as a stripped style. But considering the atmosphere which contemporary writers have to re-create or be silent, it is probably the best available medium. For her mastery of it Mrs. Parker ought to be remembered with Ring Lardner. It is true that absolute objectivity, for all but the greatest writers, is an impossible attitude to maintain, and Mrs. Parker does not always maintain it. But by the time the reader becomes conscious that Mrs. Parker is grinning derisively at her characters...
After Such Pleasures, by Dorothy Parker, reviewed in this issue...
...Wyman '35 and Gordon P. Winsor '34, will represent the Crimson in the 100-yard freestyle, leaving George Wightman '34 and Herbert M. Howe '34, fresh for the 200-yard relay in which Ulen hopes to see the record fall. George C. Scott, Jr. '34 and Edward P. Parker '34 will make up the quartet...