Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political power of much of the daily American press may be overexaggerated. Admitting the influence of a few crusading editors in the large cities and of a few local demagogues, it is doubtful if the average voter is swayed by his breakfasttable reading more than by red fire and hard cider. Constructive editorial opinion and advice on polities, at least those of national import, is offered by a minority of printed sheets. Dissection of a candidate or of an issue is left largely to the weekly magazines...
...critical opinions, had it been taken a month ago, would probably have given Author Thomas Hardy the first place among modern English prose writers, perhaps the same position among English poets. There have, on the other hand, always been those critics who inveigh against the less graceful than sturdy power of Author Hardy's fictions. Famed Author George Moore found Hardy's writing almost without merit...
...Harpers has published Author Hardy's prose works: of these, Far from the Madding Crowd is the one most often recommended to people who have never read Hardy; The Return of the Native has a hard power that, in some opinions, places it above Jude the Obscure. A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Mayor of Casterbridge, both fine novels, are not quite up to the level of Hardy's greatest work...
...conscientious, silent, inarticulate, is reminiscent of Gene Stratton Porter's Jaspar in "The White Flag." He is a sincere man, but haplessly imbued with a grain of deceit which ultimately leads him to his grave. "Poor, kind, bungling, ineffectual Felix"! He is indispensable, for had he not had the power to draw from Sheilah Miller her unreasoning compassion, there would have been no conflict and no story. These protagonists are direct antitheses not only socially, but intellectually and spiritually...
...time and energy to the development of their talents. Work is essential," she said. "Those imbued with musical talent too often do not realize that their inherent abilities will not be of any use or pleasure to the world unless, with work and sacrifice, they do all in their power to develop them...