Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pois Taylor?Harper ($2). It was that pudgy Machiavelli, Author Ben Hecht, who first made Chicago conscious of its exciting capacity for sophisticated wickedness. Mrs. Taylor, sprung from nowhere, will now revive the Hechtic excitement. Her wit and style are surpassingly original. Her treatment of esoteric erotics, from the viewpoint of a hard-boiled young Dakota virgin steeped in French novels, is a wide and pleasant departure from the lucubrations of Mr. Hecht's rather sleazy males. But Mrs. Taylor's actual material is like nothing so much as 17 more chapters in Mr. Hecht's 1001 Afternoons. It consists...
Upon no subject is the American Mercury better fitted or more logically inclined to inveigh than upon U. S. journalism. It depends for much of its copy upon newsgatherers and editors facile enough to catch the style, and cynical enough to enjoy the viewpoint, of Editor Henry Louis Mencken. Six of its 14 non-fiction articles for April were by newspaper men and women. Few months go by without Editor Mencken's discovering some fresh way to reprove the profession in which he got his start and training and of which he has been what he likes to call...
Subscriber Smith's point is well taken, but how to blink the fact that Elmer Gantry is of "outstanding interest for TIME readers," which is what THE CREAM seeks to include together with first-rate and consequential books? From the newsmagazine viewpoint events are "good" in proportion, not to their moral or aesthetic content, but their prominence in the contemporary scene...
...raison d'etre of a Senator is to legislate rather than to perpetuate his lease of power and that of his party ad infinitum if possible. Yet the senatorial attitude seems to be the reverse of this. And Haines' reappointment seems to indicate that the president shares the senatorial viewpoint...
...longheaded Jewish baby was born in Amsterdam. His life, which remained in him until 1677, was as uneventful as it was contemplative. Others strove, he mused. He was fond of saying he viewed things sub specie aeternitatis (from the viewpoint of eternity). Last week Holland began a seven-day demonstration of the 250th anniversary of his death. They unveiled and wreathed a tombstone at the Hague. Queen Wilhelmina sent a representative. Though their hero had refused to teach in any university, 60 institutions sent emissaries. Curator Oko of the world's largest library of the dead...