Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with about that much seriousness. The majority have not been here long enough to weigh the full impact of living in a foreign city, cut off from the social fabric of America. The only other major expatriate movement that this country has witnessed began in the twenties with Malcolm Cowley and friends singing "Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land" on the boat to Europe. They were back two years later no happier about the state of affairs in America but unable to live away from it. That avenue isn't open here...
With this entree, Kazin met most of the characters whose portraits make up the rest of the book. Some of the names Kazin discusses are still familiar--Mary McCarthy, Malcolm Cowley, William Saroyan, and James T. Farrell; others, like those of V.F.Calverton, editor of the Marxist Modern Monthly. Otis Ferguson, the ex-sailor who worked on the New Republic, and Francis Corcoran, a pietistic Catholic who also managed to be a Communist, mean nothing to people who can hardly remember the early '50's. But all were part of the literary-political world of Alfred Kazin and all were part...
...Stallard argues that Wilson should have clamped down on profits first, then come to labor for cooperation. "Every time there is a real crisis or an artificial crisis," he says, "the worker rather than the employer classes have to suffer." Shop Steward Tony Bradley, in Morris Motor's Cowley plant, perceptively observes that "the whole trouble with the country is the conservative attitude of the Englishman-manager and worker-who is opposed to change. He lives in a rut, and we are all guilty...
Critic Malcolm Cowley provides some humor, purring out cultured inanities at the behest of two student interviewers. To Cowley and his interviewers literature appears to be a collection of names and decades. In one daring tautology, Cowley concludes that the key to the Golden Twenties was that its writers "weren't burdened with all the rules and precepts and great examples that were more or less imposed on the writers who followed them...
...says, "what was new about the writers of the Thirties was not so much their angry militancy as their background. When you thought of the typical writers of the Twenties, you thought of rebels from 'good' families -Dos Passes, Hemingway, Fitzgerald Cummings, Wilson, Cowley. The Thirties were the age of the plebes-of writers from the working class, the immigrant class, the nonliterate class, from Western farms and mills-those whose struggle was to survive...