Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calverton's thesis is, as he claims. . . If on the other hand it is what it actually seems. . ." Does the reviewer really suspect Mr. Calverton, like the bolshevik he is, of concealing the thesis of the book from the eye of everyone but the vigilant CRIMSON man? "The author argues that literature should be judged sociologically rather than aesthetically." I thought he argued that there is no such thing as aesthetic apart from sociological judgment. "The sociological conditions which brought about a novel like 'Oil'. . . have passed." It would be interesting, and faintly reminiscent of Mr. Hoover's assurances that...
...question the reviewer's criticism of the author's style, which is perhaps one of the important functions of a critic. "Mr. Calverton writes with some case, but he uses certain words such as 'bourgeois' and 'middle-class' so often that the reader becomes weary and begins to suspect that his exaggerated 'class consciousness' is. . . the result of a personal frustration of some kind...
...author writes with some case, but he uses certain words, such as "bourgeois" and "middle class" so often that the reader becomes weary, and begins to suspect that his exaggerated "class consciousness," for that is what it is, is perhaps a bitterness, the result of a personal frustration of some kind...
Princeton proved what people had begun to suspect-that it has finally found a football team-with a 0 to 0 tie against Cornell. It might have been a Princeton victory if Left End Ken Fairman, with a clear field and head start, had not juggled and dropped a forward pass from Kadlic in the last quarter...
...year to perfect a new form of "drama with music" for 1933-34. The Curtis-Bok fortune is far, far from collapse but Mrs. Bok has the expensive Curtis Institute on her hands. If in the next few months another patron for Philadelphia's opera appears, her friends suspect that she will not be sorry...