Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently returned from a year in London is Joseph Anthony, a young American writer whose two novels are not so well known as they should be. Anthony is a quiet man, with slow speech, slow dreams; but they are profound. He has, too, a profound artistic creed which was manifest in the care shown in the writing of his novels. The Gang, a picture of boy life and street life in Manhattan, was received with unusual praise in England as well as in the United States. Of his new novel, he has already destroyed one draft. He says that...
...matter of fact, Anthony was filled with enthusiasm over an afternoon spent with the great English novelist and poet. He found him, he says, a wise and tolerant man, viewing, with clarity and profound wisdom, life and literature as he now sees them about him. This giant of the Nineteenth Century finds himself faithful to his gods; but interested in the facts of life as they are changing before him. He is not querulous; but of an absorbed old age which is akin to an eager youth. Among English writers, he advises both Walter de la Mare and John Galsworthy...
...needful to separate the two. The most active men are not always the least thoughtful, or the most meditative backward in good works. Solitude is not essential to contemplation; the Greek philosophers were constantly engaged in teaching and disputation. For most men profound thought is stimulated both by contemplation and interchange of ideas, each in seasonable measure...
Pizetti is the philosopher of the new school of Italian composers. Italian musicians are becoming serious and profound. A new spirit has come over them. This is well illustrated by a spectacular disturbance which marked the opening of the Scala season two years...
...Shriek of Araby. Although it ill becomes profound commentary to point with pride to the centripetal optics of Mr. Ben Turpin, it must be said that his present opus is sniffing at the heels of true Art. Mr. Turpin's burlesque places a permanent tombstone over the twin-Bedouin story of the desert...