Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playwright Anderson, whose simple maxim is that "somebody must write verse plays," has clothed his piece intentionally as well as unintentionally in an uneven variety of poetic fabric. Much of the common street speech of his criminals and vagrants is good stout tow-sacking. Much of the overlong excursion into the philosophy of justice, to judge by audience reaction, is tiresome shoddy. But pure chamfered silk, most observers agreed, were the tender, spontaneous love passages between Mio and Miriamne (Margo), Garth's mercurial younger sister, a curious and strangely apposite East Side Juliet...
Bless his soul, the Vagabond could not help taking that little fairy tale from Heine. It is the Age of Romanticism. And the Vagabond feels his kindred spirits. It is a poetic Germany welcoming back all that is spontaneous and imaginative in literature. It is a time when the Vagabond could indulge all his spiritual instincts; even the wildest and most wayward. And the Vagabond is happy; happy with the good earth which a few years before this age was all the devil...
...their word. Later Carl Raswan learned to understand why Bedouins' promises and the unwritten laws of their social code were so rigidly upheld: "Without these rules of the game, indeed, all human life in nomad Arabia would have become extinct." The love of Faris and Tuema was gay, poetic, eloquent and chaste. To Faris the girl was "as shy as a gazelle fawn." He cried out: "I shall never be at peace until the slender blossom bends before the storm of my love." Awed and impressed by such tempestuous passion, Carl Raswan received the confidences of the lovers...
...Southwest played a limited part in Western fiction, usually remaining in the story just long enough to let out a war whoop and bite the dust. With the novels of Oliver La Farge, braves and squaws seem at last to have been given sensible speaking parts, emerging as complex, poetic, dignified, good-humored men & women deeply conscious of the evil times that have come upon their race. Never loquacious, they speak with an easy informality that has the charm of a good translation of dialect. They suffer their humiliations at the hands of white men with impassive reserve, love their...
...described in River House, So Red the Rose and other volumes is one of the coolest and sweetest tempered areas in U. S. letters, a gracious, rainless land in which the people all seem to be kin, where liquor and food are always excellent, and where oblique, unconsciously-poetic remarks can be plucked like ripe figs from the most casual conversation. Although the inhabitants of Stark Young's South seem to grow animated only when they discuss family history, they are distinguished by their even tempers and their love for their own quiet sections of the temperate zone. They...