Word: reasonsable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As regards the statement that the Milwaukee critics "booted the play around." That is quite true-but there are several vital reasons for that which have absolutely nothing to do with the merits or demerits of the play.
The University's action "raises serious questions of free speech. The reasons assigned by Mr. Greene are suave, persuasive and well stated. But they are sophistry," the Massachusetts Committee statement said.
For relief from British broadcasting, especially on Sundays, pre-war Britishers had simply to twirl their radio dials to Radio Normandie, Luxembourg, Juan-les-Pins or any of the other gay, Continental "outlaw" stations. Outlaws they were because, unlike BBC, they carried advertising. Favorites they were for variety, swing, snap...
The publishers of A Sea Island Lady were sufficiently confident of its future to run off four printings (11,300 copies) in advance of publication date, to set aside $3,500 for publicity, to blurb its heroine as "unforgettable." To early readers of the novel it was evident that this...
Subsidiary reasons: A Sea Island Lady is 964 pages long and weighs 2 Ibs. 10½ oz. It is written in that tireless, fluescent, infallibly platitudinous language which commonly passes for "literature," and in whose terms Joyce, in Ulysses, created Gerty MacDowell.*