Word: styling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current Advocate has been given: me in proof-sheets which must be lacking their final revision. With all due allowance for this, however, there is throughout the number a somewhat poignant slovenliness of style: not one of the prose writers seems able to compose a long sentence that shall be at once logically constructed, well-balanced, and graceful. But the paper is written in tolerable journalese,--and perhaps one expects too much from the promising combination of aspiring youth and a, presumably, inspiring Department of English...
...still Mars,--a story of a squalid seduction,--Venus following the camp-fires,--and a study of an Idiot, Boy who inadvertently slew a pet cricket. The first two are by Mr. T. Pulsifer. As for the prize-fight, in "The Champion," there is some vivid realism in the style that gives promise of an eventually competent reporter. The anther should study the great classic in this genre,--the account by Mr. John I., Sullivan of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, in, I think, The New York Journal. It was fought on Saint Patrick's Day, and there were...
...good. His face shows the effect of sleeplessness, and his grey flannel shirt and coarse clothing are crumpled and neglected." The role of Michaelis is in striking contrast to that of Steven Ghent in "The Great Divide," but like Ghent's it calls for Mr. Miller's repressed style of acting and quiet authority. Mr. Miller as Michaelis, will be supported by a company as strong as the original cast which appeared with him in Mr. Moody's first play, "The Great Divide." It will be remembered that this play ran two years in New York. The "Faith Healer...