Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal causes: 1) It was radical-mealy-mouthed radical. The chance of a radical paper's success is small. The chance of a mealy-mouthed radical is less. 2) It was owned by 6,000 people. Multiple ownership theoretically has its advantages; it ought, for example to mean reader support. In fact, it does not. The past twelve months has seen the failure of another newspaper?owned by 300,000 people?the New York Leader, a socialist daily taken over principally by the clothing workers of its city. The great newspaper successes in the present as in the past have...
...often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally mystified as a result. A more external treatment for the bulk of the story should make the incidents more real. But the effect as the story stands is considerable, and the vigor of style deserves to be rewarded...
...earn $25,000 in the writing business; nor is it in the tales themselves, which are most divertingly couched in "the American language." The insolent humor of the book lies in the fact that between the framework and the stories there is absolutely no connection. Let the doubting reader verify by glancing over A Frame-Up, introduced as: "A stirring romance of the Hundred Years' War, detailing the adventures in France and Castille of a pair of well-bred weasels. The story is an example of what can be done with a stub...
...feet in iambic measures, giving anapaestic movement to line after line of a sonnet. His vocabulary was large and luxuriantly responsive, too ready to encourage love of words for the sound's sake. With closer attention to his art he has resolutely checked unthinking profusion: what he gives his reader is the quintessence of the poetry that is in him--his closely packed, severely chosen best; and in this best; and in this best are individuality, imagination, and beauty...
...metaphors ideas that were never brought face to face before and trust them to make friends? Strange bedfellows are the product not of politics only but of poetry. Mr. Auslander's poetry is rich in quick novelties of metaphors some supremely right, some seemingly artificial,--at least until the reader is accustomed to them,--and all true to Mr. Auslander's poetic faith. This faith, sincere and strong, reveals itself anew as often as we read the poems. They are not light reading; they are good reading, worthy of study for their poetic workmanship, certain of remembrance for the imaginative...