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...both the literal and figurative senses, and her final dramatic renunciation of the cold, unsensual life with her husband are very neatly done. Mr. Conboy builds his setting with authority and a minimum of beating around the bush, which gives the story an extremely rapid pace. My only complaint would lie with the insufficient development of the husband, who remained throughout little more that a stereotype all set about with raindrops...
...semi-deliberate technical devices that may be judged in terms of their effect on the reader. He maintains, to begin: "Mr. Faulkner's style, though often brilliant and always interesting, is all too frequently downright bad." After quoting several horrible examples he complains of the "overelaborate sentence structure"; this complaint, by the way, is in a column of type consisting of five of his own sentences, of median length 67 words--par in any company. But he goes on to develope the positive thesis that Faulkner's writing is often remarkably effective from an abstract technical viewpoint...
...Misho said yesterday: "Last June, I got a summons from the court about operating an inn without a license, and went down to an attorney to ask him to find out who had made the complaint against me and on what grounds. The attorney informed me the complaint came from Mr. Spencer's (the inspector's) office...
Slowly, the mills of the Chicago Medical Society began to grind-with a formal complaint that Ivy's conduct was unethical. One committee after another studied the charge, called Dr. Ivy in for consultation. Many of Ivy's most admiring colleagues shook their heads sadly over his action. "Ivy's really stuck his neck way out," they said, or, "He's courageous but foolish...
...angry young Chicago Negro named Willard Motley made a hit, four years ago, with his first novel, Knock on Any Door. It was the story of a murdering hoodlum, written in hoarse tones of social complaint, clearly implying that the whole mess was really society's fault, not the killer's. Many critics liked it, and later it was made into a movie with Humphrey Bogart...