Word: doren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...financial troubles delayed the next issue for nearly a year. The fifth Wake, a 90-page number devoted entirely to works and criticism of E. E. Cummings, came out in the spring of 1946. In addition to Cummings, John Dos Passos '16, Theodore Spencer, Wallace Stevens, and Mark Van Doren contributed. Copies of the issue, which sold over 2000 in the U.S. and Europe, are now collectors' items...
...George Wythe, John Blair, James Wilson, Jacob Broom, and Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (mentioned in Carl Van Doren's recent book, The Great Rehearsal) were...
...Wisecracks. Their great achievement was to create an atmosphere in which disputes could be settled-an example which, says Author Van Doren, could well be emulated by the United Nations today. All the things the Constitutional Convention was not help to define what it was: it was not bombastic; there was no playing to the gallery, no wisecracking, no demolishing of an opponent by invective or ridicule. The displays of learning were soon exhausted-the delegates got tired of hearing about the ancient republics. The delegates were calm, and even when they rushed articles through, their decisions were deliberate...
...improving upon it. The 39 delegates had not only brought order out of chaos; they had created a new kind of state, varied, allowing for infinite differences, and solving the problem of a national control that still preserved local and individual liberty. One of the contributions of Carl Van Doren's book is that it provides readers with all the information they need to answer the old questions about the Constitution's rigidity, its difficulty of amendment, and its usefulness in a time of crisis. It also throws a good deal of light on discussions as to whether...
...Great Rehearsal is a day-by-day account of the convention; it is cool and unexcited. Deliberately, it seems, Author Van Doren has restrained himself from paying tribute to the magnitude of the accomplishment that he records. The book's drama is not in the telling, but in the event. For the miracle of the Constitutional Convention was not that the delegates organized a nation; it was the kind of nation they created, one that has grown and prospered beyond any in history, and will so continue, as long as it remains faithful to its origins...