Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balance of learning and originality is admirably struck by it, and its observations have a considerable importance. Another essay, Mr. La Farge's "The Incompleat Angler", is an example of the same class. Mr. La Farge writes refreshingly and well, with a gift for impressions and a skill of style which are unusual. "For reflection (he says) is to the true, inward charm of fishing as the vague ideas that float half-recorded through one's brain when good music is playing are to that music itself"--an admirable simile...
...became Editor. It was he who edited the famous Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. It was he who first urged Grant to write his Memoirs. He originated the Keats-Shelley Memorial at Rome. He wrote seven books of poems, finally collected in 1919. If to modernists his style appears sentimental or stilted, it is because the moderns have found different, and possibly no better, ways of expressing the same emotions...
...Crooks, Gherardi, and Trevvet in the forward line have shown special improvement. Wickersham, who was a forward last fall, has been changed to half-back, where he has been doing excellent work, and Purdy at center halfback has been doing good defence work. Coach White has instituted a new style of game entirely, that of a close passing game with the whole team better combined...
...sure Mr. McFee has, for our benefit, graciously detained them be tween the book covers for an hour or so, but as soon as is polite, they will walk right off the last page, through the back cover, and on with their own all-absorbing concerns. The style is bewilderingly and fascinatingly reminiscent of Conrad, Dickens (in the humorous passages especially), Flaubert, Tolstoi. Even through this land-story there throbs at times the surge of the sea and the pounding of his beloved ship-engines-for McFee is a seaman-author, ex-Chief Engineer of big passenger liners...
Cummings also had his difficulties. Like Ingraham, he dropped the first set to his opponent, but becoming accustomed to Paton's style of play, he ran the last two sets out in quick succession...