Word: workday
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Robert S. Nathan's leading article, "Apres Moi, le Deluge," is an exousable protest against the modern debutante's unfitness for workday life and against the marriage do convenance. But its hysterical sentence structure and three of impending disaster show lack of historical perspective: he might have seen the same force at work at "Le Preciousness Ridicules" or in the "Merry Wives of Windsor." In verse, too, it is less easy to commend his quest of esoteric effects. The odd meter of "A Lover of Boston" exhibits as tenuous a sense of beauty as his lover's defence of Corey...