Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand me more for what I have not said than for what I have said. Only this language is possible in Fascist style...
Life is short, but the newspapers that record one day are sometimes 60 pages** long. Knowledge is power, but the old-style encyclopedias that contain it are so heavy that only a powerful arm can lift them. Words burn like stars, great thoughts outlast granite mountains, but the books in which words and thoughts, are written will weary a man's hand and tear his pocket. "Condense what you write," this age has said; "compress it, synchronize it, cut it down." For borne time such reflections as these have animated the mind of Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske...
WHEN the artist must eat, and at the very best night clubs, art flies out the window. F. Scott Fitzgerald has decided to live well and write too. This is forgiveable and understandable in a young man of means. But when his writings maintain him in the style to which he is unaccustomed it take a good deal of writing for the Red Book to keep the purse at the proper bulge...
...hotsy-totsy style there is the fantasy. "Rags Martin-Jones." full of the unbelievable tosh of which Fitzgerald was master. But there is something new, something un-Fitzgeraldian, which has an aroma of Sherwood Anderson. All the other stories in the book have it, now faint and thin, now strong and assailing. Perhap it is unfair to shout "Sherwood Anderson!" It may be that this is what happens to all young men who grow serious before they have grown truly wise. And so it may be that this is merely a phase in the growing-up process of which...
...Weather" comprises a series of six essays upon a variety of subjects of general meteorological interest. The six chapters are essentially the author's Lowell Institute lectures of somewhat over a year ago. Professor McAdie has the faculty of writing in a pleasant, easy style. His attractive little volume of a hundred pages should stimulate an interest in meteorological phenomena and their many human relations. Anyone who gives an hour to the reading of these essays will realize that the science of the atmosphere is by no means altogether made up of a mass of difficult physical and mathematical problems...