Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gordon says what he has to say in language that has only one meaning, yet any but the most puritanical auditors can leave their shock absorbers at home with perfect safety. The play deals with the debilitating effect of the West Africa climate on white men, who, it appears, must inevitably take either to drink or to native women. The subject is not one which lends itself to dainty dialogue, but Mr. Gordon exercises commendable restraint. Moreover, he proves conclusively that the proprieties are offended far less by calling a spade a spade than by hinting darkly of certain unnamed...
...this sketch, the three prose narratives are not prose in conception, excellent as is the detailed style in each. "The Iron String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful. "The Hanging...
After running over the main points of Lee's career, General Maurice observes, "The Lee that I see was an essentially simple-minded man with a keen sense of duty and a perfect trust in God's providence. His nature was not such as to make him eager to investigate the complexities of involved political questions, and his military training was calculated to give him a strange distaste for such investigations." A caricature more libelous could hardly be conceived. To call Lee a simple-minded man is as unjust as in these days of Modernism to suggest that...
With the exception of gold plate, the feast was a perfect model of those which used to be given by the Tsar's representatives, worthy of comparison with the best efforts of kings and princes and financiers...
...Every perfect person owns Just two hundred and six bones...