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… do it that way, a process that follows full circle from the comic to the tragic. What first strikes one about writing in … qualified, with cautious provisos for every contingency. It also safely sticks to the general and the abstract, shunning … jargon precisely because it is unnecessary, because it embodies nothing new. This language is like the emperor’s new …

… Hall, Boston, answering the eager-timid questions of her audience about dead relatives, and I feel again the painful … he says in the autobiography that “there was something compelling me to attempt creation of an art as separate … and 1921 (“Michael Robartes and the Dancer”) are turning points. He is facing up to the largest questions; thought is …

… and hungry look, but not because of famine. Not merely in comedies, but in tragedies, histories, and romances as well, the … Joseph Collins, “Syndicated Philosophies,” Winter 1926 “I would like to die,” she said languidly, from where she …

… on the wall, shudders, then closes her eyes. “But he didn’t come round no more. Miz E took care of it. I knew she … of cultural pariahs, sustained by custom and primed for obedience, but as a child, I know this only through feeling. … to get away, to be free of its lineage. When I left at age 26, I imagined myself saying, “ I’m from here, but not of …

… his balance and his aim and tried again. Sixty-three was comin’. She slipped her hand up to grip the bed’s iron … when the countin’ got into the sixties. Absently, she studied the Venetian blind she had bought at Monkey Ward’s over … Lord, how I wished he’d hurry up and finish or die try in. Either way, she’d have to be up soon. She looked …