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...many adverse critics, in no wise surprised by his change of nationality, hint that a certain superciliousness in his attitude toward U. S. letters caused him to feel more at home in England, where neo-literary figures abound profuse as the autumnal leaves...
...very cheerful ... and sane and lovely" it is to come to this healthy writing after the vain mouthings, the verbigeration and easy obscurity of the Neo-Joycian school...
...professional aesthetes and their ilk, will wonder how he does it and, wondering, wish that they might do as well, as simply. It will annoy them to find that it is possible to be modern as well as coherent. Perhaps, before long, we shall have a school of "Neo Hemingways", a bunch of these sleek fellows who have been the followers of every latest-ism since Dada was young. They will imitate him with diccrete modifications, without his balance and restraint, and probably they will be welcomed, for this, you remember, is America where we can never get too much...
...that for Mrs. Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after the pioneering of Virginia Woolf and others...
...Marxian remedy for poverty is a more equable distribution of the world's goods. But, the Neo-Malthusian replies, the least capable have the largest families. It is practicable, or even desirable, that under these conditions the capable should be penalized to support them? Let us give them measures by which they themselves can tend to relieve their poverty. The experience of our clinics shows that this is possible even with high grade morons. The feebleminded of lower grades we must care for; but let us see that as few as possible of such incompetents are born. They are expensive...