Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...completes his vicarious journey and betakes himself from romantic reading to classic slumber he has really wandered a rather inferior road. "The High Adventure", after all, is not quite so lofty as its name might suggest. For the most half romanticist feels the need of certain tricks of style and thought to keep him from waking to reality. And Mr. Farnol has given him few in this particular work. The plot is very, very apparent. One reality guesses who the real villian is early in the story, and from the moment Olivia Revell descends her ladder into the world...
...Peregrine's Progress", and the book suffers from the absence of that vitality. True there is Jessamy Todd, the Methodist-pugilist, and an occasional character of the Farnol tradition--which is the Dickens tradition-but they are wraiths compared with the coves he used to draw. A certain dashing style and a gallant exuberance of spirits is necessary for success in the kind of novel Mr. Farnol enjoys writing. And that verve and esprit he certainly fails to reveal in "The High Adventure...
...becomes stronger on reading the "Report of the Student Council of Education," which fills more than one-third of the issue. It would be most improper for a visitor to discuss this document; but he may, without vain compliment, be struck with the lucidity, orderliness, and independence of the style (which is also very sober in tone); and may admire, very honestly, the maturity of form attained in the committee of ten gentlemen wearing the suffix "26." Such a document, in any University, could surely only do good, and clear...
...play "Brown of Harvard" began its career with a successful run of several months on Broadway. The ambling good natured style, and the clever character delineations attracted the Gotham theatre-going public from the start...
...show, entitled "1776", is in fact consistent with its title both in respect to music and dancing. All the dances conform to the old style...