Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mentor for the first year squad and that the former Trinity coach will aid Horween as assistant with the University eleven. On the other hand it would appear logical that Casey, a teammate of the present head coach for two years and a man thoroughly familiar with his style of play: should work in more close connection with Coach Horween, as his assistant...
There is not a little unusually interesting writing in the book, the vivid impressionistic description of a revival of "Macbeth" in the first decade of the century being particularly memorable. The style throughout is readable, and as one progresses from chapter to chapter, he finds himself placing increased confidence in the authors critical powers. Polite to other writers in the field with whom he may differ, he makes only the most modest claims for his own work, which is undoubtedly the most generally useful book now available for its period, and certainly, with its particularly well-selected illustrations from...
...Falla or maybe Respighi and a portion of Wagner?and a symphonic conductor has made up his program. And just as one chef is famed for his pastry, the next one for his meats, so is it natural for one conductor to excel in one style of music, be it classic, romantic or modern...
...Yale undergraduate, came to fame by winning first the Metropolitan title and then, at Brookline, Mass., the national amateur championship. At Flossmoor, Ill., in 1923, he relinquished his national title to Max Marston of Philadelphia only after 38 holes of amazing competitive golf. Possessed of a slightly unorthodox style, he is more given to "spells" of brilliance or mediocrity than some other golfers, but his courage and resourcefulness are of an extremely high order. His opponents never feel secure against the "impossible" shots that it is his habit to bring off. . . . Siwanoy Club (Mount Vernon, N. Y.) prepared a triumph...
...imperturbable quality grows in him. Editors, recognizing his ability, are irritated by his indolence, then struck foolish and speechless by the impersonal tolerance and good Humor with which he takes his leave. Openings are plentiful, for he can pump a column into a gorgeous political balloon and, modeling his style after Edgar Poe's, turn off fiction serials that harrow most satisfactorily. By sheer imperturbability he proceeds on up to the Brooklyn Eagle's staff, departing, when his Abolition feelings get too vigorous for his employers, to take charge of Publisher McClure's new Crescent in New Orleans...