Character Analysis by the Observational Method (1920)
by Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford (9780217808866)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LESSON ELEVEN EXPRESSION (continued) PART ONE EXPRESSION OF FACE, WALK, HANDSHAKE, VOICE, HANDWRITING While posture and gesture, walk, handshake, handwriting and voice are all rich in expression and repay a thousand-fold every hour of study by the student of character analysis, it is in the face that we find the most delicate shades of expression as well as the most beautiful outward manifestation of character. To him who has learned to observe and interpret, the human face is an open book. Who has not seen coy faces, faces that ask baffling questions, confidential faces, avaricious faces, courageous faces, sweet faces, sad faces, thoughtful faces ? Perhaps no writer in all literature has given us a more beautiful interpretation of facial expression than Walt Whitman in his poem " Faces ": Whitman's " Faces."? " Sauntering the pavement, or riding the country by-road? lo such faces Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, prescient face?the always welcome, common, benevolent face, The face of the singing of music?the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges, broad at the back-top; The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows?the shaved, blanched faces of orthodox citizens; The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face; The ugly face of some beautiful soul, the handsome detested or despised face; The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the mother of many children; The face of an amour, the face of veneration; The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile rock; The face withdrawn of its good and bad, a castrated face. . . . " Do you suppose I could be content with all, if I thought them their own finale? This now is too lamentable a face for a man; Some...

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