Word: sparkingly
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...young men and women who, in the United States, have passed through English Departments. A kind of graduate-school poetry has come into being: well written, beautifully organized, and nicely centred at some 'norm' of excellence, but at the same time, dead, dry and without a spark either of feeling or originality . . . Young poets in America tend to sit at the feet of their elders, imbibing technical knowledge and dedication by argument and the laying on of hands. Young poets in England associate with each other, often forming schools whose design is the overthrow of elder schools...
...Monat (the Month), a monthly with a Harper's format that was launched six years ago by the State Department as a "weapon against Communism and Naziism." Although its circulation is small (30,000), Der Monat has become the most respected and influential magazine in Germany, helped spark a renaissance in German intellectual life, which was stamped out by the Nazis. Read largely by intellectuals, government officials, students and university professors, the Communists have made reading the magazine a criminal offense and denounced it as a "real intellectual poison brew...
...deprecating consciousness of his time. His figures can be convincing in gesture, subtle in modeling, mildly dramatic, funny and reposeful, all together. But they run counter to the breast-beating spirit of the age without breaking free of it. They exhibit joy constrained, and have the stuff, not the spark, of greatness...
...stuff, they might yet do us a service . . . Nine youngsters out of ten will sooner or later discover sex for themselves . . . but this cruel violence is something else. It is by no means an essential part of us. No doubt there is in us the germ of it, a spark of savagery, especially in youth. One of the aims of civilisation is to smother that spark . . . But here in this popular fiction the whole civilised trend is being carefully reversed...