Word: angoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the editorial labyrinths of "The American Mercury" Mr. Charles Angoff satellite of the more notorious Mr. Mencken, advances to deevy the Boston of today. In his essay "Boston Twilight" he buries Boston beneath rather violent verbiage. Her stage is, to quote the critic. "A paradise of leg shows"; her literature "as dead at the Hittite empire," her press, "the garbage can of American journalism." Indeed, to read Mr. Angoff's essay is to listen for long pages to a booming, often banal barrage of rather heavy wit. He buries Boston and he does so with a bang...