Word: renders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely upon their effect as psychological images. That words can ever be used thus fastidiously is a doubtful hypothesis. Poet Cummings, in his wilder moments, imitates...
...detachment of 165 officers and men were landed from the Denver; but two days later, upon the arrival of Government troops, the detachment was withdrawn. The Denver, however, remained off shore ready to render aid to Americans and other foreigners in case of need...
...Postmaster at Cambridge that the current issue has been declared unmailable. Whether this ban will be nation-wide or not is being determined by the Sollcitor of the Post Office Department at Washington. A copy of the suppressed magazine has been forwarded to him, and he will render his decision at the end of the week, it was announced...
Your magazine has the merit (to me) of being impressionistic and vivid. . . . Paucity and eclecticism of detail and connective render it eminently readable...
Entertainment for the diners will be furnished by a delegation of Keith's negro musicians, who will render piano and vocal selections...