Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reserved their opinions until passions should have had time to cool. In the last year or two, however, there has been a flood of literature upon the subject. Some of it is frankly partisan, assessing the war guilt with mathematical precision, and assuming an omniscience as to cause and result little short of superhuman. Some of it, like the present work, is well thought out and impartially presented...
...City College Student," runs the story, "presents in this issue a rating of the professors of the College. A group of students who are qualified by their lone similarity with many members of the Faculty have undertaken the task, and the result is given here in the hope that the grading may prove stimulating and salutarily shocking...
...educational system is the target for reformers of all kinds. We try desperately with tests, informational and psychological, to reduce the human element, much after the manner of railroad transportation. One result is that we tend to emphasize the knowledge that can be tested conveniently. It is far easier to see if the child knows the words and dates of so many authors, than it is to find out whether he has absorbed the bases of a real literary appreciation and taste. This is true to a greater extent even in music, as Dr. Davison shows in this book...
...almost the only novelist who has formulated his ideas about his art." The book itself is a successful attempt to place herself in the illustrious company of James. She has shown that the effects which she has hitherto produced in such a work as "Ethan Frome" were no result of chance. Genius was undeniably operative there, but it was a literary genius which reached its fulfillment on the wings of a lower order of genius, perhaps, that capacity for taking infinite pains...
There are, according to Mrs. Wharton's definition, three dimensions to the great Russian short stories, those which comprise the French sense of form, length and breadth, and that more puissant Russian one, depth, and its accompaniment of tears. The result is "great closeness of texture with profundity of form." As a sub-variant of the short story subject in general, the critic points out the supernatural in particular as a growth indigenous to the Germanic and English soils. It is interesting to discover that in the present book there is at least one story avowedly of this class, really...