Word: function
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function of the critic hardly needs a serious defense in this more or less enlightened day, and what defense is necessary he himself is well able to make. Mr. H. L. Mencken, who is perhaps the high priest of modern American criticism, has said that the function of the critic is to cherish and point to the highest literary standard possible...
...resentment which any craftsman feels on having his work weighed and condemned, or perhaps accorded some slight mead of praise, by a mere layman. The obvious solution is to admit that critics are also authors and that the creation of an intelligent reading public, which is the critic's function, is no less essential than the creation of good literature, which is the sphere of the author. But this is really too much to expect of the most temperamental and jealous of all the professions...
More than anything else it the function of Modernism to establish a new ethics upon a solid foundation, and to show that moral codes have more fundamental raisons d'etre than the mere force of historical forms can ever invest in them. Modernism concerns itself with life, the knowable. The earnest youth of today faces--not death--but life, and the serious interest being manifested at Harvard in the religious controversy reveals how eager is the desire to know how to live...
...Wynn and Eddie Cantor emit almost as much cubic laughter per evening. Wynn exploded last week in The Grab Bag. Cantor will function most of the year in Kid Boots...
...regular daily routine of the Nation. Unless it be systematically organized, we cannot expect its continuation. I realize that this matter, except in so far as it may be fostered and encouraged, does not lie in the Government. It would be unfortunate, indeed, if such an important function as the distribution of information should ever fall into the hands of the Government. It would be still more unfortunate if its control should come under the arbitrary power of any person or group of persons. It is inconceivable that such a situation could be allowed to exist...