Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college publication is one of those things which the average reader somewhat inevitably views with a certain amount of suspicion the chances are against his being interested in the outpourings of undergraduates or the freshness of "young thought." He feels, perhaps, that he is getting into something a little aesthetic or sophomoric or otherwise disconcerting when he opens its pages, and that if he is going to read something it would perhaps be better to lose himself in the standard graces of "The Saturday Evening Post." The reviewer, as a matter of fact, approached the flaming, covers of the Advocate...
Reading to operators is an old practice in the trade, for the late Samuel Gompers was a shop reader in the 1850's. Indeed he learned his philosophy of labor from the books he read aloud to his fellows...
Then, after exploring, for the sake of greater tolerance toward three in every hundred of his fellows, the chapter on "urnings" and "uranism" -in which the four long letters, invented or not, are as remarkable as anything that will be published this year-let the reader attend a chapter which may mightily shock and profit parents teachers, preachers, public officials and alleged adults of every sort- the chapter on "Adult Infantilism In a Nation, In an Individual, In Literature...
...structure of his stories, behind the titles and estates of his characters, that Author Bennett's genius is to be found. It is a genius shy of formality, making hash of what is conventionally expected of it in the way of dramatic climax, contributing richly at moments when reader and characters are least expectant. Who will may hunt for traces of Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe in Andy Clyth and Sam Raingo but the wealth of this book lies in the subtle asides of the two fictitious figures and in the host of minor characters that surrounds them...
Even at the end of the story, the reader scarcely understands why Juliet could not fit herself to the spiritual confinements of either her gentle or her plebeian heritage. She may have fallen between two stools, or made her choice, conscious that she was neither fish nor flesh. And this of course is the most real thing in the book. The balance of influence and choice is so nice that it is impossible to determine whether Juliet's problem was solved by decision or necessity...