Word: unreality
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Unfortunately for the rubber manipulators, 70% of rubber production is sold in the U. S. American rubber buyers considered the higher prices unreal, and bought only from hand to mouth, Moreover, the general adoption of cord tires tended to reduce rubber consumption because of their better wearing qualities compared with fabric tires...
Zane Grey is a good writer. His immense popularity should not dim that fact. His descriptive passages sometimes glow with beauty and imagination. He is one of the few novelists who appeals consistently to the Average American. His characters are heroic, they are unreal, they catch and hold the imagination. It is probably this last fact, and the fact that he writes so much, that keeps him from being a "critic's" writer. But there are few living authors who know the out-of-doors so well, and who can write of it so vividly...
This attitude must be tempered, according to Mr. Russell; inventions must be used to produce leisure rather than unreal wants, and liberalism must enter into the machine. Until this happens, industrialism will be, like every false God, a curse...
...said about the drawing of some of the characters. Pegano and "Ma" Pegano the fat Italians who run a very questionable hotel are priceless; Mrs. Worth, an old English lady with a longing for Devon is excellent, while it will be very hard to forget the Reeces, Mrs. Reece unreal, brittle, and colorless as a wax doll, and Mr. Reece with his ever-lasting fear for the valves of Mrs. Reese's heart. "How is she?" "Badly, badly. They say the valves are closing. Closing up. Stenosis is the word the doctor uses, but long words don't make...
...when all is said, Clive, as an astute but kindly Lancashire factory owner, is the main-spring of what would otherwise be an unreal and rather heavy problem play. He is an elderly man whose motto has been "have a good time", and who has lived up to it; and whose "religion is a respectable pastime for Sundays". He is the embodiment of common sense, the foil to his rebellious protege, Charlie, and the saving grace of the performance. He is supreme in all business affairs, but, like most great men, he has one weakness--his daughter, Rosie. Her character...