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...opinions and ideals. He reads The Dial? which is often more than I can do. He follows current writing avidly. He admires the best work of his younger contemporaries, yet, with his background of culture, his fine sense of proportion, he deplores the unnecessary vulgarities that make much of present-day writing. Tell me, readers of TIME, don't you these days turn away from a new "realistic" novel with a certain feeling of weariness? Aren't you nearly ready for a revival of romanticism? Take my advice, then, turn to the pages of these two men. You will find...
...rely upon the past. The official departments (under the Constitution, the Reich has the power to make school laws for the states along general lines) plan the study of one foreign and one classical language and the preparation of children to face the practical problems of life in present-day Germany...
Arthur Hammerstein, producer: " Generalizing about modern musical comedy, I said: ' We are getting back to the plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, set to present-day words and music. ... No more the bawling, syncopated soubrette, whose only acquisition was a reputation in the divorce courts and a vulgar method of kicking. The plot ... is the thing...
Where does this brilliant young poetess rank among our present-day versifiers? Her lyrics are more moving to me than those of Sara Teasdale or Elinor Wylie; but on the other hand one can think of no woman poet who has quite achieved the breath and flashing brilliance of Amy Lowell. Miss Millay's is a different gift. I should be inclined to rank her second, then, in importance among our women poets, and remembering Lindsay, Frost and Robinson, sixth or seventh among our contemporary versifiers...
...Critics. Throughout the career Mr. Lindsay has been praised and attacked with the utmost heartiness by critics of high grade and low. However, it is generally admitted by any with a modicum of intelligence that he is one of the most individual and interesting poets of present-day America...