Word: doren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, discussed by Mark Van Doren, John Mason Brown and Ludwig Lewisohn...
...Poet Mark Van Doren: "The issue should not be what a teacher is or believes, but how he teaches ... A Communist who . . . deliberately twists or distorts the truth ... is a bad teacher and should not be kept in his job; but so is a pragmatist, a Christian Scientist, or a Mohammedan who does the same thing...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (285 pp.)-American Men of Leffers Series-Mark Van Doren-Sloane...
...part, Mark Van Doren's new biography of Hawthorne is no exception. When it deals with Hawthorne's life, it follows all the smooth old academic stereotypes. Whenever it touches on Hawthorne's writing, however, the book picks up interest at once. Of The Wives of the Dead, one of the most poignant stories in the English language, he says: "No reader of it will forget the speed with which its interior lights up and stays lit with a significance almost too delicate to name." Such stories do not date, for, as Van Doren says, they deal...
...Hard Knowledge. Van Doren's contribution to the subject of Hawthorne thus amounts to an impressive, if interrupted, essay on what Hawthorne had to say and how successfully he said it. That contribution could have been greater if Van Doren had 1) thrown away the biographical passages, or 2) fastened his attention on the man Hawthorne really...