Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always find subjects worth their metal. In general, as I have said, the level of taste is high, but the standard of production is far from attaining this level. And one is led to the conclusion that with subjects about which they feel deeply, these authors would write something really worth while...
Stefan Zweig has accomplished in his biography of his friend, Romain Rolland, what Romain Holland himself had in mind when he wrote his "heroic biographies" of "Beethoven", "Michelangelo", and "Tolstoi". Rolland, in these books, wanted to write the lives of the heroes of history as he knew them. "True greatness was for him to be found only in solitude, in the struggle waged by the individual against the unseen." He aimed at bringing solace to others by showing, in the lives of these men, that their titanic and lonely struggles brought them at last to the places they so well...
...write the above with the above with the hope that some light may be thrown upon the discussion of the Far Eastern questions. C. J. Lin 2G. T.W. Kwok...
Therefore, is it that I write this appeal for some recognition of our loss; for some slight word from the CRIMSON that the death of our staunch friend. Mr. Leavitt, may not pass unheeded by all of us students of Harvard University, whom he knew and loved. Punar L. Saldonstall...
What is it that Mr. Dos Passos has endeavored to do in "Three Soldiers", which seems to your reviewer only a regrettable bid for notoriety? For one thing, he has not tried to write a history of the war, nor an exposition of its issues, nor an account of the typical spirit of the American army. He believes the war a just and righteous one; but a picture of it does not require a lot of foot-notes to that effect by Mr. George Creel. Like any artist worthy of the name, Mr. Dos Passos has attempt a portrayal...