Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gama that was acted two centuries previous in Tangier: out of these materials Grant Overton has written "a tale of the miracle we call love and of the commonplace we call fate." A most unusually good romance, it nevertheless has its defects: a stiff burden of complications, a style that is sometimes as much Mr. Hergesheimer's as the author...
Sherwood Anderson is an enigmatic figure in American letters ; for there are critics of equal note who find in him little more than vague, abstruse, some what vulgar meanderings. There are those who consider him possessed of great beauty of style, others who see in his sentences grotesque and jumbled collections of words, those who find a sort of visionary health in his philosophy, others who pronounce his ideas those of a decided psychopath. Cham pioned by H. L. Mencken, by The Dial, by even so conservative a critic as Henry Canby, he is a man who must be reckoned...
This is an age when everyone writes who has anything to say, and many more write who have nothing at all to say. It is an age of mass publication and greater mass composition. Maupassant, if he were living now, would be very much out of style. For Maupassant practised writing for seven years before trying to publish any of his works, and then only began cautiously...
...debacle last Saturday in more ways than one. Captain Crosby was still wearing his nose guard and Hammond was still toting football shoulder pads, while in the ranks of the opposition Geran's weaving in and out with clever stick play recalled to the handfull of spectators the similar style of Captain O'Hearn. Hill had a hard time filling Hodder's place, but Austin proved himself worthy of the starting position, while the third string subs had their first real work out since the B. U. game two weeks...
...Professor Morey's comments. "My observation of Harvard students," he stated, "is of course limited to those who take the courses in the history of art. These I have found to have a very interesting and rather exceptional approach to the subject, in that they are more critical of style, and better acquainted with the technical problems involved than are our students at Princeton, who are more apt to take the historical view. Some of the students in my courses here have seemed to me to possess an independence and precision of criticism that approaches mature connoisseurship...