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Thomas discusses the plea of many young teachers today that the typical English course "seeks by its choice of unsexed and devitalized themes, to divert the reader with mere trivialties . . . and situations alien to the vibrant happenings in the daily life of the normal boy or girl or high-school...
Slang, not the weak, evasive variety, but the short, vibrant phrases, bitten off neatly, inseparably linked with a harsh nasal drawl, and dear to every trans-Mississippi heart, such slang will set, many a pair of ears tingling. Frightened men are no longer gravely alarmed; they have the hell scared out of them. Superlatives are no longer the acme of this or that; they are the cat's pajamas...
...stalwart defender of President Andrew Jackson. After years of study in Paris when he imitated every known school of French painting, Artist Benton suddenly found himself in the U. S. Navy during the War, began to develop his well-known style: crowded panels of attenuated muscular figures painted in vibrant and sometimes consciously crude color. His first murals to attract national attention were done for Manhattan's New School for Social Research. He paints on panels of prepared gesso (a wash of thin plaster) in tempera, mixing his dry hand-ground pigments with the yolks of eggs...
William Powell plays expertly the vibrant and extravagant Ziegfeld, but Louise Rainer walks off with the show, heavy and expensive as it is. As Anna Held her charm and appeal make Myrna Loy and the most glamorous chorus M.G.M. could collect seem drab. The beautiful, tempestuous little French singer is alternately sunny and gay and llystericat but her line as she watches her beloved husband, Ziegfeld, kiss a drunken chorine, is a real heart breaker--"You might at least have closed the door." Loy is competent as Billie Burke and Frank Morgan is at top form in playing Ziegfeld...
...left college to go to war, watched the excitement wild-eyed, as did Ernest Hemingway. His This Side of Paradise in 1920 was greeted as the first authentic novel of college life, a nervous, vibrant chronicle of post-war and youth and America. Like Hemingway, handsome active, neurotic Fitzgerald can be read in Esquire while the critics pronounce Fitzgerald and Hemingway no longer important to American literature...