Word: butted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critic Huneker's principal interests may not have been in the U. S., but his breezily enthusiastic criticism was undeniably native. Often blundering, always bold, he was a warm-hearted chronicler of adventure in the arts. Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is...
Critic Huneker was born in Philadelphia (1860), studied art in Paris, traveled widely, returned to the U. S. Traveled or settled, he produced gargantuan quantities of newspaper criticism of all the arts. Everywhere he drank beer and talked. Says Editor Mencken: "I have heard them all, but he was the...
Dikran Kouyoumdjian is the hero of the first story in this book. Dikran Kouyoumdjian is Author Michael Arlen's real name. But he warns us that all the characters in these stories are fictitious?he, too; his defense being that "historians have familiarized us with the truth that the past...
These are typical Arlen tales: A young would-be man-about-town finds himself the protector, against his inclinations, of a fascinating girl's honor. A fascinating girl fascinates three young men who are all agog to be fascinated. A fascinating older woman fascinates an older man and then leaves...
The Significance. The U. S. has been called a, country without one original philosophy. But a spirit of no mean origi- nality manifests itself in the three follow-ing life attitudes: 1) New England Puritanism; 2) Negroid Epicureanism, now spreading from rural South to urban North; 3) academic pragmatism (William...