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...study of Twain published in 1920 and revised in 1933, Van Wyck Brooks argued that Twain fell short of greatness because he masked his reformer's spirit by writing humorous books-in short, by making a joke of a crusade. Twelve years later, Harvard Critic Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon. With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book...
...suave photomurals and green fluorescentlit interior of Phillips' Book Store's new establishment which opened this week would make strange contrast with the store John Phillips started in 1914. He began with one shelf of second-hand books-in someone else's jewelry store...
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