Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LAST year Myron Brinig published "Singermann", acclaimed by the late Arnold Bennett as one of the most important American novels of the year. In "Wide Open Town", Mr. Brinig returns to the same setting: a copper mining camp, sprawled over a hill in western Montana, with a population of fifty thousand people, most of them alien...
...Wide Open Town" is disappointing. It does not nearly approach the gusto and vigor of his former work. Rather, it strikes one as being a carbon copy, slightly blurred at the edges, of "Singermann." The failure this time of the author to portray this particular phase of the American scene is primarily due of the American scene is primarily due to the besetting sin of his reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them...
...this were the worst sin of "Wide Open Town" it might have struggled by. After all, the average reader unassimilated to its background will not pause to distinguish between creativeness and photography. But the author has taken a cause, has attempted to find the Universal in a mining town. It may be there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig...
...selection of numbers to constitute the program was made with the intention of including a wide variety of types of songs and differences in dynamics in order to ascertain the relative effectiveness of the offerings. The program will probably consist of the following numbers: "My Spirit Be Joyful", by Bach; "Inimici Autem", by Lassus; "Spring Returns", a composition of Marenzio; "Salamaleikum", by Cornelius; "Jesu Dulcis", Vittoria; "Choruses from "Pinafore'", by Sullivan...
...novel type of program was printed for the games, although the sheets, left beside the stands wrapped up in brown paper, were discovered by only a few. A piece of paper about six inches wide and two feet long had the title, "Harvard University Rugby Club," at the top. Below were the lineups for both games, and under them, about six inches of notes on the players, some of which follow...