Word: written
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...point of view of those who have interested themselves in the cause of the defendants; but it is composed with fairness, and, if read in the same spirit, should do much to dispel misunderstandings which have befogged and embittered the controversy from the beginning. After reading what he has written, one must at least be forced to admit that the persistent efforts to get a new trial for these defendants need not be regarded in the light of an effort to justify or excuse their "red" radicalism, or to bring the administration of justice in the Commonwealth into contempt...
...addicted to what one might term a Victorian style of writing. Her ideals may be faintly romantic, her point of view that of a retiring, gentlewomen, but her prose is terse, keen and precise. This verbal sparsity exhibits itself especially in her latest book "The Allinghams"--a work faultlessly written but unfortunately conceived...
With the sentencing of Sacco and Vanzetti on Saturday, another chapter has been written in the criminal trial that, together with the Dreyfus case, deserves to rank as the most portentious trial of the century. In both cases, the issues involved render the decisions of the court more than ordinarily significant...
...afraid he cannot give an unequivocal answer. Mr. Robinson has written a beautiful poem, the best he has published since "Lancelot": but it is not entirely successful. Granted his, method of attack, it is necessary that his characters should be vivid and distinct, their personalities clearly differentiated. Unfortunately they are not. It is, of course, exceedingly difficult to describe two people, both violently in love with each other, and, without describing anything else about them, make them distinct; it is nevertheless a difficulty Mr. Robinson, if his poem was to be really successful, had to overcome. But this the very...
...slightly remote, cadence of its own, is nearly always delightful. "Tristram" possesses these qualities and many others. And, if the characters are not individuals, this passion that transforms them is cunningly and movingly described; the poem is admirable in construction and expression. No one but Mr. Robertson could have written it. And that is high praise