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PERADVENTURE - Robert Kerble - Putnam. Our hero starts for the church, but gets lost on the way in the thickets of theology. After an interminable succession of spiritual mishaps, he ends up satisfactorily enough in the arms of a woman and in the pleasant meadows of her paganism. On the way...
The fundamental principle of expressionism is the representation not of the appearance of a scene, but its meaning. A characteristic instance was the Fifth Avenue scene in Eugene O'Neill's Hairy Ape. Jewels were to the misplaced stoker only tinsel; so the shop window was filled not...
Literature is self-expression. It is up to the reader to extract the meaning, not up to the writer to offer it. If the author writes everything that pops into his head-or that is supposed to pop into the head of a given character-that is all that should...
In a clear, deep voice Bishop Brent read a passage from the Bible. Apart from any meaning, the words fell on the ear like the call of a bell on a frosty morning. They were clean, terse, direct words such as an honest Angle Saxon uses. The ten-minute sermon...
It is true that men who speak on college teams do not always have convictions, and it is also true that there is a certain virtue in being able to support a cause, regardless of convictions, merely for the sake of argument. But if sincerity can find a place in...