Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early he listened to the flattery of academicians and literary ladies. The son of a practical playwright of fame and success, he has made himself into a worshipper of closet drama, of dancing figures in cheesecloth, of symbolism and of dialect. Had this genius chosen to explore life and write of it as he found it, he might have been mentioned in the same breath as Eugene O'Neill...
...have studiously avoided to speak or write for the public on matters of religion: There is great sense in the good old Sanskrit injunction that says: "Silance is victory where ten Buddhists are zealously preaching and promoting their religion." The same could be said of almost every other religion including Hinduism or Christianity. However, being asked several times by the so called "godless" Harvard men to give a frank expression to the Hindu attitude toward all missionary religions, I am undertaking the task and do hope it will be received in all fairness and intellectual honesty with which...
...best extra-curriculum activity, except to point out that in his enthusiasm he has perhaps forgotten some of its drawbacks. For it must of necessity lag behind parchesi in the development of fighting qualities, and its training is apt to make a young man totally unfit to write triolets or sing to anything but a bassoon. Perhaps the only thing an undergraduate does learn from it is not to take himself seriously for he has great opportunity to see how flippantly everyone else takes...
...pours a real torrent of artistic endeavor. This he demands in the work of others, and when he does not find it he criticizes with passionate earnestness. I have known him, after reading a young fellow-novelist's book, to take what must have been hours of time to write him a lengthy, careful and penetrating analysis...
Just what he will write in the future remains cloudy. With a firmer reputation than that of the other young people, he yet seems to me to have achieved rather less than Robert Nathan and rather more than Stephen Vincent Benet, Cyril Hume or Dorothy Speare. His coming novel should mean a definite prophecy for future work. It is to be hoped that from it will be absent the seemingly inevitable flapper...