Word: unread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon every newspaper bureau in Washington, in and out of season, rains political publicity. Produced mostly by verbose, news-ignorant hacks, these handouts are sluiced into the trashbasket unread. As they never get into print, they represent a major waste in political party management...
...This time-world flutters in my thoughts as an unread shadow...
...PLAINS OF ABRAHAM-James Oliver Curwood-Doubleday Doran ($2). All that Robert W. Chambers has left unread or unsaid of colorful records concerning the Canadian Northwest, the late James Oliver Curwood has supplemented. Noble youth Jeems, son of a true French Canadian woodsman, mourns his tomahawked mother. He rescues the beautiful maiden Toinette. With their faithful dog, they escape the Mohawks only to be captured by bloody Senecas. Toinette's beauty subtly prevails upon the chief to spare their lives, and for months they live according to Redman's ritual in Chenufsio, Hidden Town. A priest happens along...
Although not an avowed backer in English composition of what may be called the Wendellian Law, Mr. Chase believes that Anderson and Dreiser and all the rest will fifty years hence be as unread as the Congressional Record. Several things are wrong with Anderson, to his mind. He is to obsessed with sex, and sex perversion. "Winesburg, Ohio" was saturated with people, ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife...
Undoubtedly modern life has much in common with the glittering sophistication of the Augustans. The past few years have witnessed an astonishing revival of interest in Pepys, Congreve, and the Johnson circle, while pre-Raphaelites, transcendentalists, romanticists go unread. Indeed the present has little sympathy with many of the ideals and standards of the nineteenth century. Traditions, morals, and conventions have to bear the daily shafts of the lighter humorists, to say nothing of the sledge-hammer blows of H. L. Menken and the rest of the Grub Street fry on the American Mercury. Emerson, Carlyle, and Mill...