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...also the greatest of its kind that America has yet produced--but that, after all, is a conservative assertion. Mr. O'Neill has succeeded in a difficult and ambitious task; he has traced in the character of a single negro his whole racial history, and the whole psychology of terror as well, Beyond that, he has skillfully developed an abandoned element of dramatic machinery--the monologue; and he has manipulated his material with an unusual power born of freedom...
During the past three years, there has grown up in Cambridge a legend of the Bloody Crossbar, symbol of terror to those who face Harvard on the football field. It was conclusively proved in Saturday's game that for Yale men the Crimson "H" holds no fears. From beginning to end, the spectators watched a glorious struggle. Defeated in the final game of the season, the 1921 team will go down as one of Yale's great elevens and Malcolm Aldrich as one of Yale's greatest captains. Yale Daily News...
...verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic and apparently sincere, the technical frame-work is successful; but here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting is best managed in "The Walloping Window Blind", with admirable restraint and with something of Conrad's feeling for the terror of remote seas. One of the least objectionable modes of getting atmosphere would be the resort to dialect, if it were not now so much over-worked. The trick justifies itself, however, in the four pieces of fiction included in this issue because of the dexterity with which it is used...
...prefers to preserve to us a good man and rescues him from the lure of piracy through the good offices of Sentimental Jack, Captain of the Pirates. A young Frenchman falls among thieves. Another Frenchman, a Yank, a Portuguese and an African Black are introduced with good differentiation. Soon terror is spread in the heart of the hero and the reader is prepared for a critical scene full of danger. We are disappointed at this point to find the hero relieves himself from the embarrassment of a piston in the hands of a pirate being thrust in his ribs...
...unreal in romanticism to what is vivid and vital in the common human life around us. The poets are taking deeper hold upon reality. Old romantic poets went to the distant and dead to find their strange beauty, but the new find a strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt whether, if Milton were living now, he would be able to stir up interest in his great epics concerning lost...