Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WITH the publication of "The Past Recaptured," the translation of Marcel Proust's great novel, "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu," under the title "Remembrance of Things Past," is brought to a close. As the Italian critic Umberto Morra has said, men may imitate parts of it with some success, but the whole will never again be equaled. In the present literary world where few writers and critics have been able to agree about anything, all have joined in their homage to the work of Proust...
Four men sat around a long conference table in a Manhattan publisher's office one day last week, registering varying degrees of pleasure. Large, dapper Publisher Richard Roy Smith beamed. Wide-eyed Critic George Jean Nathan puffed contentedly on a cigar. Ernest Boyd lolled crosslegged, grinning through his messianic beard. Hulking Theodore Dreiser looked less glum than usual. All had just learned that the first monthly issue of The American Spectator ("A Literary Newspaper") published by Mr. Smith and edited by the three writers (plus James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill) had sold out its entire edition...
...John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless leading women on the stage by Critic Nathan; an argument by Dreiser for control of adult population; articles by Eugene O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, James Branch Cabell, Louis Untermeyer, Joseph Wood Krutch...
...Chester Smith Whistler's Works Francis Van Vanice James: Charles W. Eliot Class of 1934 Henry Aranow Education of Henry Adams Milton Bornstein Combe: Tours of Dr. Syntax Harold Simson Cone Morison: Development of Harvard University Robert Calhoun Creel Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci William Frederick Ebling Sheridan: The Critic Edward Settle Godfrey Morison: Development of Harvard University Abraham Lincoln Gordon Life of Benvenuto Cellini Clement Lowell Harriss Carroll: Alice in Wonderland Isadore Herman Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress Robert Kaplan Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield William Wallace Kirkpatrick Byron's Poems Paul Lachlan MacKendrick Pericles and Aspasia Joseph Neyer Swift: Tale...
...Eliot '10, the distinguished poet and critic, will give two series of public lectures at Harvard as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the current academic year. He is the first American to receive this honor since the Norton professorship was established six years...