Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S book reviewer should review his arithmetic. After mentioning [TIME, March 7] that Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse contains 1,224 pages, TIME'S critic states that writing at the rate of two pages a day it took Author Allen five years to complete his masterpiece...
Last week Fashion Critic Hawes was still pouting at her publishers because they refused to illustrate her book with drawings she had had made by one of her favorite artists, the New Yorker's Helen Elna Hokinson. She vowed she was going to write another book, one that no publisher could consider too serious for Hokinson illustrations. Far less concerned with the incident than the fiery Hawes, shy Artist Hokinson, a specialist in the idiosyncrasies of clubwomen, was last week mainly interested in a delightful mass of raw material-a mob of inimitably shaped Garden Clubbers who descended...
Last week Edmund Wilson again demonstrated how consistently he thinks in critical terms. The demonstration: a collection of ten essays that range from an account of a Princeton week end to an introduction to Pushkin's poetry. Not a unified book like his Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers includes a slightly heavy discourse on verse technique, but to compensate for that it has more of the U. S. literary scene than Wilson's previous writing, and it contains two brilliant essays, one on the ambiguity of Henry James which is the most searching study of James...
...Author. Only son of a prominent New Jersey lawyer and politician, Edmund Wilson has had a more varied career than most critics. He served in the Intelligence Service during the War, was a reporter on the New York Sun, managing editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New Republic for eight years, where he alternated his scholarly essays with firsthand accounts of strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely...
...five playwrights is Elmer Rice who, by coming into the group, re-enters the theatre after dramatically forswearing it when two of his plays were panned in the fall of 1934. At that time Rice called first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," characterized a Manhattan critic as "a senile alcoholic." Before his sputtering exit, Elmer Rice, Inc. had produced six plays, one of which (Counsellor-at-Law) was successful enough to give him a huge profit...