Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Mr. Dibble tells a plain, straightforward story in a vigorous way. His vision is unclouded by prejudice, he is quick, observant, interested and interesting. His style is rather anecdotal than analytic, rather active than beautiful. Unassigned quotations are frequent. Meticulous accuracy of detail, one is tempted to suspect, occasionally is permitted to give way to the larger accuracy of the complete picture. His manner is rather journalistic than literary. His irony, running through the sketches in a constant undercurrent, is a little heavy. His stiletto lacks the keenness of Strachey's. But his subjects are well chosen...
...very much on the temperament of the actor. My own tends toward the Greek drama. The character of Hamlet is greater in scope than that of Oedipus; its philosophy is more profound and infinitely more intricate. The character of Oedipus is less complicated, less subtle. It is simple and straightforward, and for that very reason Sophocles has made it more impressive in the vastness of its emotions...
...told, with no pretense toward straining for effect. Mr. Pulsifer has something that he wants to say, that he honestly believes to be worth more than the paper it is printed on--which is quite a distinction nowadays--and he carries out his wishes and his beliefs in a straightforward manner. But what is most encouraging of all is the feeling of the reader that the author has not taxed himself to the limit of endurance; that this book is only the beginning; and that Mr. Pulsifer has enough wisdom and restraint not to allow himself to be rushed into...
...straightforward if rather blunt way of dealing with the situation of farmer dissatisfaction which confronts the Republicans in the Middle West. Wheat at $1.50 and $10 hogs are not his entire program. Said he to an interviewer : " The best thing that could happen to this country would be to have Congress not meet for three years, and have no State Legislature meet for four years...
...finalists had little difficulty in reaching the last round, for yesterday morning Whitbeck defeated Alfred Turner of Newton High 6-1, 6-0, while Watson disposed of his school-mate W. B. Evans 6-4, 6-4. The story of the afternoon's contest, however, was not so straightforward, as can easily be seen from the final score...