Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should please readers of Shaw's Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...
...audience to appreciate the profound, wholesome and unfamiliar fact that Maya, for every man and for a moment, appears as the incarnation of his desires, that the face of this prostitute glitters, in the cracked mirror of each customer's longing, as the image of an ideal. This tenuous truth does not make for dramatic continuity; the play Maya stretches it against a background of homely and revelatory incidents in the life of its heroine-the death of her child, the visits of her comrades in vice, the rapid entrances and exits of her customers...
...Harvard man demurred. "A section man's answers should, I believe, have a certain pungency or alliteration or something that will pique the attention. Something like 'Too tenuous' or 'You do not catch the bite of the question'. That's the way one writes magazine articles...
...extravagant romance, by true and human emotions. Lionel Barrymore, onetime stage actor, is able to indicate the burly pathos of the hunchback who loves his brother as much as he does his wife but can forgive neither of them for their sin. Mary Philbin, garbed in tight and tenuous garments, is almost equally competent to express her perplexity in the choice between loyalty and passion. The younger brother to the hunchback is a handsome cinemactor of Valentinoesque appearance; his name is Don Alvarado...
...This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving in her hands like a bright tenuous flag, and who had wrapped life closely about her like a brilliant shawl, one summer day tied a red scarf around her throat and stepped into her automobile. As she drove along the roads that sloped down to the sea, a warm slow wind fumbled at her scarf and blew...