Word: shams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shoot, the operator of a moving picture camera, whose business is merely to turn the handle and observe, becomes almost as impersonal as his machine. As it registers sham, he registers life. The difference is that he comments; he comments endlessly. Marcel Proust alone could analyse motives and emotions more exhaustively. And I am afraid that only a person who really enjoys Proust, or who has read ""Ulysses"" from cover to cover will be able to wade through Pirandello's novel...
...characters of this novel are articulate; they speak in conventional phrase, but the authoress has exhibited considerable dexterity in uncovering, sometimes gently, often ironically, what they really mean and what emotions within are contending with the sham of their spoken words. It has been Miss Parish's distinct triumph that she has accomplished this largely within the speeches of of the characters themselves, and has not resorted to tedious obiter dicta. Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep...
...Reed of Missouri. Last week the thrashing was severe. Said Mr. Reed: "I have learned that the White House Spokesman is even a more authentic source of information as to the Presidential mind than the President himself, if such a thing is possible. . . . Let us have done with this sham and this miserable boyish, childish attitude of the White House...
Then, after a little snuffling among sham issues, three candidates to succeed Dr. Lowell were examined. First came large, gentle Dr. R. B. Merriman, "author of stately volumes on the Spanish Empire which few have read but all admire. Great Catholic-baiter. A man of means, whether his own or his wife's our sources do not inform us." But, questioned the scurrilous one, if Dr. Merriman were the Elisha of the University, why did Dr. Lowell delay resigning...
...opaque quality, unknown to this climate. The shallow waters shimmer with reflections from the clean sands below, and the proas of the natives sweep through the surf, like birds skimming the clouds. The cocoanut trees wave to and from against a high sky-line. No tricks, no artifice, no sham appears in "Moana", but only the peaceful glory of the South Seas...