Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief criticism of the book is that Phillip Sellaby is not the pulsing human being he should be. His experiences are vivid enough; the author has a faculty for imagining situations. But, as we have said before, the story seems at least partially auto-biographical. The reader feels Mr. Benet is writing more or less about himself and trying to picture how he would react to certain situations; that is, about a kind of ideal himself with whom he is not fully acquainted--or at least whom he is reticent about letting anyone but himself know intimately. The irony...
...skillful in the management of his plot, that we rarely feel inclined to remember that the story is not actually new. It is effective from an emotional standpoint, and not by any means bad prose. For description, Mr. Cleaves' account of a bull fight is vivid, and effective. For sheer nonsense, "Hicks the Half Back" is undeniably funny, and the reader laughs shame-facedly in spite of his conviction that the article is rather beneath his notice. And the naive way in which the story stops when the writer's well of humour goes dry is not the worst thing...
...Tommasini as the romantic lover, soldier of fortune, and priest, sang his part attractively but gave in his action none too vivid a characterization, a week ness due somewhat to the libretto. Messrs. de Biasi and Cervi in their monastic roles were excellent; the former's serious bass contrasting pleasantly with the latter's jocose treatment of his part. The orchestral support, under the direction of Mr. Knoch, was, as ever, excellent...
...this very number, the excellent review of Samuel Hopkins Adams' novel, "Success", contains a powerful denunciation of the adjectival style. In "The Arrow-Head", the descriptions of the apartment in New York and of the farm in the Middle West are typical examples of the straining after a vivid and detailed presentation of the milieu, quite in the manner of "Main Street". The story in the "Translation from the Navajo", despite the author's agreeable lightness of touch, and gift for fanciful invention, is well-high lost in the atmosphere. The sentiment of the verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic...
...Correspondent de I'Acedmie des Inscription et Belles-Lettres de I'Institutde France. The new volumes are called "Buddhist Legends", and are translations by Dr. E. W. Burlingame of a story-book written in the sacred language of Buddhism, the Pall, in Ceylon, 450 A. D. They give a vivid picture of ancient monastic life in India; a direct counterpart of the Legends of the Christian Saints...