Word: print
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alone in his ire. From public print to public print the story went and was made much of, fondled by those who see in college the best kind of news, flutor unfit to print. Last Sunday the trivial little editorial was used as the text for a sermon. Perhaps is was only asking sanctuary, like the hero of Galsworthy's new play. At all events it received little. The gentleman of the clergy was strong in his denunciation. And he was not completely wrong...
Thomas Hardy, the last of the great Victorians, is now writing only for private reading. His latest efforts, written in the seclusion of his home in Wessex, are mostly short poems, written for his friends. He has no desire, he states, that these should ever see print, or that they should ever be placed on sale. He is writing because he loves...
This decision is in strong contrast to the custom of most of our modern writers. They feel called, by some great power, to produce voluminously; and they feel pledged to publish voluminously. Every thought which their minds conceive, every word which their facile pens write, must be perpetuated in print. They are writing literature which the public should have. Even after their death, their heirs gather up the last scraps of paper and edit them, so that the world may have all that the authors wrote...
...this sense, Mr. Hardy is not a modern; he is a Victorian. He does not believe that all he has written is great literature; he has been wise enough to exercise a critical ability in choosing what he admits to print; he is wise enough to know that his later offerings, done at an advanced age, may be lacking in power. So, in true Victorian fashion, he refuses to allow these poems to be published. Moderns will declare that he does not know so much about contemporary fashions in literature as do authors of this generation, that he does...
...print such articles as those about horses killed in making a German movie, or the little Negro children playing funeral, or the drowning of a Russian Jew at Coney Island? They are surely not of national interest and to me they smack strongly of the sensationalism of Hearst. They are merely gruesome incidents that disclose the morbid mind of a pig sticker delighting in his superb ability to portray the horrible...