Word: sketched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...successful in the crisis but a failure at amusing yourself in the subway is wrong." This is both delightful and intelligent, but most of the embroidery of "Logic" is either pure dada, or epigram that does not bear directly on a central theme of criticism. Yet the sketch is in the general spirit of prose, and in a particular spirit that is suited to the American genius and the genius of the day. It does not take refuge in faint reproduction of past prose glories...
Unlike this sketch, the three prose narratives are not prose in conception, excellent as is the detailed style in each. "The Iron String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful...
...chest in extolling them. In other respects the show would outrun the average revue many weeks, for the entire chorus was unique in intricacy and activity. The skits were funnier than the average, and provoked more laughs, and although they did not nearly realize all their possibilities--notably the sketch in the bedroom. Such acting as there was in the course of the evening lacked subtlety, which suited the audience perfectly...
...CRIMSON of December 22, 1896, "Lampy" merited the following: "The Christmas number of the Lampoon, which came out yesterday, is unusually entertaining and contains drawings rather above the average of college publications. The sketch on the cover, drawn by T. M. Hastings '98 is very effective and represents Lampy astride Pegasus treading over the Dragon...
Coach Mahan's duties as assistant coach of the football team prevented his taking charge of the fall baseball drill. Except for a brief talk on the first day of fall practice, he has made no appearance in his new capacity as Coach Slattery's successor. Tonight he will sketch the plans for the indoor work this winter and for the spring season. Business has detained Battery Coach Fred Mitchell in New York and last night it was expected that he would be unable to attend the meeting...