Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams. Just out of the nickleodeon era, the movies in America were far inferior to European productions, and attracted only a million persons a day. In 1912, however, the entertainment became an art under the patronage of the great Bernhardt, an event perhaps more portentious than others with greater space in the newspapers...
Among the distinguished men and women who have sat for Mr. Christy in the last few years are: President Harding, President Coolidge, Will Rogers, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Vice President Garner. . . . I will appreciate your giving this letter space in your valuable publication...
...recur. In Virginia Woolf's plotless pattern there seems to be an inkling, a suggestion, a flash, of what time may mean. The effectiveness of her method, which she has been evolving for 15 years, is that it gives the reader this feeling of being abroad in space and time. The sense of time elapsing which the discontinuous "action" of the story gives is further deepened whenever the clock strikes and the years move on, in scenes that show the seasons changing, day fading into night, night becoming day. These scenes, unlike John Dos Passos' Camera...
...suggestively beautiful writing to earn an author the name of "great." As in a cosmic Customs Bureau, everything must be declared, even ideas. And Virginia Woolf's ideas are hard to declare. The suggestion of three ideas runs through her books, appears in their very titles: Time, Space, the Sea. Since all three are undefinable in novelists' terms, they have to be suggested semi-poetically, which is what Virginia Woolf does. Time, Space, the Sea are symbols, recurrent aspects of a dimly, intermittently perceived pattern...
What Time means, what Space is, what the Sea mirrors is more than Virginia Woolf can say: but that they are, that they mean and mirror some Reality measureless to man is the whole import of her writing...