Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Frank Swinnerton is chiefly known as a technician. The story of Felix's childhood and youth is told with an adroit simplicity that gives a minute picture without the semblance of effort. Every episode comes with the force and inevitability of life itself. He is never melodramatic, never sordid. He is consistently interesting. He has the invaluable faculty of exploiting the significance of the casual. He does not feel it necessary to take his characters apart in order to show how they work. Unquestionably they all have complexes and repressions and psychological eccentricities. But Mr. Swinnerton...
...Story. A centaur is beast and god ? and both without fear or shame. Jeffrey Dwyer was a centaur, in his youth...
...Significance. A vivid, swift-footed description of youth's perennial first assault upon life?written with beauty, humor and fire. A younger generation that is not Fitzgerald's treated from a new angle and without professional flapperisms. Faults of course?occasional over-writing?occasional lapses into adolescent unreality?but on the whole a first novel that does not need the usual "displays great promise" critical lifeline?a first novel that should interest a wide and diverse public...
...love to Andy, interrupted by occasional raids of a reinforced chorus, or visits of "old Frosty". Mr. Dunn Senior's office manager. Likewise, Maggie uses her opportunities to wind the obliging Joe around an attractive little finger. In the end, Andy, who appeared at first as a rather spoiled youth, emerges a finer, better specimen of manhood, due naturally to the effect of Mary Jane...
...from the Liverpool University, who asked him to address them. Mr. Asquith refused. Thereupon the students '"kidnapped" him, and took him to the University. He accepted the situation with good grace; made a witty speech in which he said he was "glad to see such signs of vigorous youth and vigorous adolescence"; was then allowed to depart...