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...view. But alas, the new fashion of "unhappy endings"' dictated that Anitra should be carried off by a sudden hemorrhage, with Strakosh absent on a triumphant concert tour, and just at the moment when Papa Bruno at last conquered the impasse of his unfinished theme. Physical to a pungent degree, Author Hurst handles her characters with caressing fingers that are impatient of clothes, is sometimes betrayed into descriptions so accurate that they seem hermaphroditic fancies: "He beat his breasts. Literally that was true...
March writes simply, and extraordinarily well. His style is unornamented by any literary gingerbread, and he is able almost always to find the right words with which to clothe an idea: expressions neither clever pungent nor, neither clever nor erudite--but natural, and honest. His characters, too, give the illusion of verisimilitude, much more than do Faulkner's, though of course they suffer from the necessity of proving that existence is unpleasant and futile. Two novel devices, somewhat reminiscent of Dos Passons' "Camera Eye" and "Newsreels" are used by March to emphasize and reiterate his theme. "The Whisper" consists...
...Woman's place is the home, and I could tell you which room." So says an unrepentant old sinner in Author Stong's latest bucolic melodrama. But the actions of Village Tale's unashamed characters speak even louder than their pungent words. This highly colored tale of country wickedness will, like State Fair and Stranger's Return, find a welcome in Hollywood...
...every distiller knows, all Scotch whiskey is blended. So is Scots dialect. A blend not only of pungent Scots dialect and plain English but of symphony and satire, low comedy and drama that sometimes aspires to the tragic, Cloud Howe is a malty, fairly intoxicating brew. Author ''Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (J. Leslie Mitchell, British historian and archeologist) has already written one book about his heroine (Sunset Song), will write one more, but Cloud Howe stands sturdily enough alone...
Abruptly a thunderclap resounded as a blinding arc leaped from ball to ball. Other flashes followed in a steady crackling punctuated by deafening reports. The air was pungent with ozone. Through the din Dr. Van de Graaff bellowed...