Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pace and on the plane thus set by Critic Fadiman, USA proceeded to present in rapid, sure-fire fashion, a mixture of the nation's cultural foibles and virtues. Readers had no difficulty guessing which material was placed by the editors in which category...
...years Alfred Richard Orage was editor of the London New Age. This book is a selection of his literary criticism published there. Rational, skeptical, lucid, Critic Orage looks to common sense as his guide. Says he: "In its simplest form common sense is the sustained resolve of the mind to hold nothing as true that is not implicit in the common mind. . . . Young man, I say, first learn to write common sense; then study to be wise, and beauty will afterwards be added to you." The role of the critic is to train writers ("Artists are born, but critics make...
...example of Critic Orage's own criticism (of a passage by Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton): "Read one after the other in the ordinary way, they [the paradoxes] stun the mind like a series of shocks; no meaning can survive them. And considered sentence by sentence they scarcely repay the trouble...
...Critic Orage, 57, was born in Yorkshire, England. Great & good friend of the late great Katherine Mansfield, he was the first to print her stories. Other contributors to the New Age: Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), Jack Collings Squire, W. L. George, Llewelyn Powys. During his editorship, 54 books were dedicated to him. Orage now lives in Manhattan, lectures on the art of writing, on the psychological methods of Religionist Georges Gurdjieff (TIME, March 24). Other books by him: An Alphabet of Economics; Nietzsche in Outline and Aphorism; Friedrich Nietzsche; The Dionysian Spirit of the Age; Consciousness: Animal, Human and Superhuman...
Author Ben Ray Redman, 34, served in the Royal Flying Corps during the War, was scout pilot of the 79th Squadron of the British Expeditionary Forces. Poet, critic, essayist, translator, short-story-writer, he was literary editor of The Spur, now writes a weekly column, "Old Wine in New Bottles," for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1926 he married Actress Frieda Inescort. Other books: Masquerade, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gustave Flaubert-a Biography...