Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stories themselves are full of cheap witticisms and the coarse sensationalism usually confined to yellow journals and moving pictures. The coeducational feature is stressed to the limit, and beyond. Just what excuse there is for the publication of such a magazine it seems hard to imagine. If people must write about colleges why not do it truthfully...
...been through the glorification of the ruling classes, and through teaching their subjects and slaves to stand in awe of them. With magisterial rod in hand, Mr. Sinclair proceeds to classify as evil all those writers who consciously or unconsciously voice the propaganda of the ruling classes, or who write without a moral purpose...
...that the Irish rarely use knives in a fight? The club referred to is not Irish. It is composed entirely and exclusively of Americans of Italian blood. Statements such as the above might be excused if made deliberately; but if you are interested enough in the club to write about it, you should know something about...
Three classes of people annoy me greatly: the Irishman who is anti-English, the Protestant who is anti-Irish and the person who has nothing else to do but write to newspapers and periodicals. Qui potest capere, capiat...
...question has often been asked by well-intentioned people: Why do not great poets write librettos, great translators do them into English, so that U. S. audiences may hear words whose beauty matches the music they occasion ? Always the reply is the same: In opera, the play is not the thing. Modern singers, it is true, are trained to careful diction; but even to the best of singers, words are no more than so many sibilants, dental fricatives, head-tones and gargles. It is often difficult, even for a critic reasonably near the stage and with a command of several...