Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Al Jolson--the one and only--says, and actually takes the firs steps, that he is going to quit musical comedy for the serious drama, then is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party and for Pro Bono Publicae to write letters to the Times. Mr. Jolson seems to have no conception of the general fitness of things--nor the fact that the stage is already cluttered with good musical comedy material trying to be Hampdens. What the public wants (in addition to a good five cent cigar...
Although it is unfortunate that the younger generation of authors cannot write enough worthwhile plays to satisfy the demand, it is a compliment to the theatregoing populace that it refuses to accept drivel and receives instead the thought-stimulating and inspiring lines of Ibsen. In this case, turning to the past is a sure sign of progress...
...right to be treated fully. And it is surprising to read this book and reflect that it was written by an old man, a professional politician; even in translation it is a sweeping, rhythmic picture. American politicians must be a different breed; young and vigorous, they neither think nor write so well. The jacket hints that the whole book may be a spiritual biography of Clemenceau himself--which is something for the Tiger and no one else to decide. And, however that may be, the situation in Greece during the Macedonian invasions, the magnificence of Demosthenes' stand against the forces...
...dark levels of tragedy that mark great love affairs," that "his nature, be it repeated again, is not deep but shallow." All this may be true, but how be sure? Admitting that all the moods and passions and dark levels of tragedy are not to be found in his writing, just as there is rather shallowness than depth in much of it, need one be so confident in pronouncing him to have lacked all of which he did not choose, or feel able, to write? Some of the poet's letters show clearly that he believed in reticence where...
EVEN before reading this "Odyssey" have always felt that among the types of men who could not write literature were war heroes and professional journalists. War heroes usually make the stuff of romance seem commonplace; journalists lose distinction of style and the ability to take pains...