Word: prosaicly
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...life William Wordsworth touches only at rare intervals that higher inconsistency which is popularly conceded to poets. The conventionality of his prosaic life is as unconventional as "poetic rapture" would be in the pecadilloes of George Babbitt. In an attempt of fit Wordsworth into the poetic niche of the normally abnormal. Professor Read finds in the key to the true Wordsworth, the well of his poetic emotion. Professor Herford, on the other hand, looks upon the life of the poet with the cold, green eye of pedantic scholarship. He manages to maintain his equilibrium as far as Wordsworth...
...that he might set down for his host of followers some of the more attractive taverns that they too might experience the joys of the epicure before the Pops or a movie. The Vagabond has ever cared deeply for the Olympia. Every now and again American food becomes too prosaic, too jading for the appetite. Then a baked chop, rice cooked with the aid of some occult Greek necromancy, and Baclava make a meal worth the cating. Down near the market there is the restaurant which was an institutions of our fathers', Durgin's. A good trustworthy place. The Vagabond...
Quick Millions (Fox). This is another racketeer picture, with the building racket as background for a fable illuminated by a far more prosaic fancy than City Streets (see above). There are shots of racketeers playing water on cement, blowing up buildings, ruining milk-cans with bullets. The frustrated hero is Spencer Tracy. By blackmailing builders he rises to become the silent partner of a rich building contractor. He tries to cut a figure in society to win the love of his partner's sister. In the end he is shot down by the lowly racketeers whom he has learned...
...past. Men wonder how their own lives would have been effected if they had gone into business rather than medicine, or they ponder on what France would be today if Napoleon had won at Waterloo. There is a sentimental romance about the process that appeals to the most prosaic...
...interesting than the tale itself are the individual scenes which are handled with a finesse seldom seen in native productions. The opening sequence finds Albert singing to a group of tenement dwellers. There is an attention to detail and a depth of feeling which lends dramatic power to this prosaic gathering. At another time Albert is in his room, filling a shabby suitcase with little gifts for the girl he is to marry, but is interrupted by the arrival of the police. Here again is a trite situation, which becomes significant through deft and sympathetic handling. Nor is the movie...