Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White did not take all of this lying down. He objected strongly to those writers who sought to control opinion. Working on a World War Two government pamphlet with Reinhold Niebuhr, Max Lerner, and Malcolm Cowley, White wrote...
...promised, "we'll be two of the most interesting people in the United States." He kept his word. By midlife, Wilson was regarded as America's leading man of letters, a redoubtable scholar and a critic whose opinion could make or break a literary reputation. Critic Malcolm Cowley called him a combination of Dr. Johnson, Carlyle and Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century British explorer and linguist. Readers turned to his columns in The New Yorker, Cowley wrote, "to see what in God's name he would be doing next...
...woman her grandmother had warned her against. She married at 16, shed her husband nine years later, then drifted into journalism, writing a chatty column for $20 a week for Denver's Rocky Mountain News. She migrated to Greenwich Village in 1919, later reviewed books for Malcolm Cowley at the New Republic...
...century. Wallace Stevens '01 joined the staff. A young poet named Thomas Stearns Eliot '10 published poems in its pages a few years later. He was followed, in turn, by such literary luminaries as Conrad Aiken 'H. E. E. Cummings '15 (still writing in capital letters), Malcolm Cowley '19, and Archibald MacLeish...
...Lorena Hickok succeeded in finding what radical social theorists have merely postulated to exist--that among us which is human. In taking to the home' of America, and then, reporting what she felt, Lorena Hickok avoided the flaw that undermined other 1930's writers, from John Steinbeck to Malcolm Cowley. No golden mountains, no grapes of wrath, no morality play--she gives us a vision of the America that peers out from that frail cover-girl's eyes. It's an image as haunting as it is compelling...