Word: stylistics
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...style, there was no reason to take exception to general opinion. But when Mr. Hemingway disregards entirely one side of his work, as he has done with several of the short stories in "Winner Take Nothing," we are inclined to think that he has been overestimated as a stylist...
...game, encouraged her to enter her first tournament at 16. At 17, Miss Van Wie beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast championship. The 73 with which she beat her again, in the national final last year, was the best round she ever played. Impeccable as a stylist, brilliant with her irons and steady with her woods. Miss Van Wie is not always as sure on the greens as she was last week. Once she won a match from Maureen Orcutt when, after she missed a putt of 12 in., Miss Orcutt missed...
Unconcerned with ritual, the Church of Christ, Scientist has always put its emphasis upon reading matter. Christian Scientists listen to "readers." not preachers. All churches have "reading rooms." Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy was an ambitious stylist, curiously preoccupied with publishing and publicizing. She continually revised her extraordinary masterpiece, Science & Health, and her followers loyally purchased 57 varieties of editions between 1875 and 1907. Many of the "bylaws" which Mrs. Eddy imperiously wrote into the Manual (laws of the Mother Church) dealt with publications, such as one forbidding Christian Scientists to patronize booksellers handling works unfavorable...
...Bourgeoisie," it often resolves itself into summary, and nothing more. The biographical vignettes, of Disraeli, Wilde and others are striking and original, but in several instances questionable; and there is occasionally a suspicious naivete in the point of view. This may well be a defect of the stylist and not the historian. The writing of the book certainly is marred by a sort of false urbanity and lacks the flair for effortless insinuation such as Lytton Strachey displayed in treating of the same period. Despite these minor shortcomings, Mr. Wingfield-Stratford has probably written, the most comprehensive and enjoyable...
Associated in Apparel Arts with Publisher Weintraub, a stylist of international reputation, are David A. Smart, president, experienced publisher of tradepapers, and Editor Arnold Gingrich, an energetic youth who sleeps twelve hours on alternate nights, works 36 hours between. It is said that Publisher Weintraub is the brain, President Smart the heart, Editor Gingrich the voice of Apparel Arts...