Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took Francis Hackett almost five years to write his biography of Francis I. In November he promised his publishers: "The final section will be ready in December unless I get the pip." He writes of the completed book, "The beginning is quiet, simplified, kept sober in style. The second section is the opening of the fruit. Here is the Man in action as King, in love, in intrigue, in battle, at court, the spender and speculator and crook and adventurer. I have tried to squeeze the juice of French characteristics into these pages and to make him as human...
...Anon, seems to have had a slight suspicion before the rage of the true Irate Subscriber blinded his sensibilities and launched him on a tirade against undergraduate pomposity in general and mine in particular. His unflattering epithets and choice of comparisons seems strangely out of keeping with the "sober and constructive criticism" that he recommends so strongly...
...criticism. They have found, as I have, a curious ratio in some cases between the amount of advertising of a book in the "Review" and the favorable tone of the criticism of it. I did not mean to imply, nor do I know, that there never is honest, "sober and constructive" criticism in the magazine's pages, I was referring to such phenomena as essays on Addison's small clothes and like subjects, and reviews like Mr. George Steven's recent "Syllabus of Syllables" (a parody comment on Miss Gertrude Stein's opera. "Four Saints in Three Acts.") Such items...
...small amount of undergraduate humility should be a good nostrum for the literary aspirant. If the Mr. Wades of the college would content themselves with sober and constructive criticisms within their depth they would gain a great many ears which are now deaf to them. "The Saturday Review" would I am sure not only welcome but publish a sensible criticism of its policies. (Name withheld by request...
...book. It has nothing in common with the trash of Hollywood "Westerns," except that old friend, the word "hoss." Tucker's active life-time spanned the roaring decades of the old West: his life was so packed with Indian fights, shootings and hangings of horse thieves that his simple, sober account of a few of them is absolutely convincing. Running through it is the evidence of a genuine love of nature that is the opposite of sentimental: the few blunt words dropped here and there to describe a purple butte or a lush valley are almost touching, naively juxtaposed...