Word: doren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary business, like any other, has its entrepreneurs, and they are not all publishers. Editor Carl Van Doren, like Editor Louis Untermeyer, has made his literary name by purveying other men's wares. Friends call him a constructive critic; carpers, a popularizing salesman of U. S. letters. Not the first nor the best U. S. prose anthology, Modern American Prose is one of the biggest (939 pp.). Few readers will agree that all Editor Van Doren's examples deserve to be included in such a collection, or that every example is truthful, beautiful, alive, but nearly every-one will find...
MODERN AMERICAN PROSE?Edited by Carl Van Doren ? Harcourt, Brace...
...days but last week it reopened uptown in the smart little Chanin Auditorium. Best seats at the Unity Theatre had cost 35?. At the Chanin they were $2.75 and the list of enthusiasts had grown to include Leopold Stokowski, Lawrence Tibbett, George Gershwin, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. "One of the most exciting shows in town," critics were saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less comely party ("the witch woman"), lies unconscious...
...from the University of Illinois have gone some 100,000 graduates, mostly to become solid citizens, a few to win renown. Most widely famed is Footballer Harold ("Red"') Grange. But Sculptor Lorado Taft is an alumnus, and so are Litterateurs Carl and Mark Van Doren, Motormaker Ray Austin Graham, Sanitary Engineer Arthur Newell Talbot, onetime (1928-32) U. S. Senator Otis Ferguson Glenn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's onetime (1923-31) President Samuel Wesley Stratton. The late great Stuart Pratt Sherman taught English at Illinois for 17 years...
SINCLAIR LEWIS-Carl Van Doren and Harvey Taylor-Doubleday, Doran...