Word: bryce
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...artists had done their best. Surrealist Max Ernst contributed a waxy "translation" of Utah's Bryce Canyon. Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
...BRYCE Denver...
...They are all characters-and so is Reader Bryce...
...James. The American Scene, classic as it appears, might have been expected to compete at once with other classics like Bryce's American Commonwealth for a place in U.S. bookshelves and meditations. But it didn't. Since Harper's published it in 1907, it has shared in the long neglect and inaccessibility of James's work. It now appears-at perhaps the tail end of a two-year-old Henry James "revival"* with an introduction by an English writer of notable talent, Poet W. H. Auden, whose expatriation is the reverse of James...
Will U.S. whites eventually absorb the nation's Negroes-as Italy, Mexico and Portugal have absorbed theirs? So thought James Bryce, and so, for more than a generation, have thought many sociologists. "It is now estimated," wrote Author Herbert Asbury in Collier's last week, "that there are at least between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 persons in the U.S., supposed to be white, who possess Negro blood. . . . Authorities generally agree that between 15,000 and 30,000 . . . Negroes go over to the white side every year...