Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor of the Crimson...
...Editor Canby stepped down to the post of contributing editor. To his desk went aggressive, irascible, 39-year-old Bernard De Voto, who had been a lecturer at Harvard, editor of The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, Red Book, Collier's. Born in Ogden, Utah, the son of a Notre Dame mathematics teacher and a Mormon girl, Bernard De Voto entered the University of Utah at 17, helped organize a socialist society, left Utah in disgust when three faculty members were dismissed for unorthodox opinions. He went to Harvard, enlisted, was a lieutenant...
Although critics might complain that they could not always tell what Editor De Voto was driving at, they had to admit that he more than made up for the amiable neutrality that had previously characterized the Saturday Review. Writing in a prose style so vehement it sometimes seemed apoplectic, Editor De Voto raged at U. S. intellectuals, accusing them en masse of "misrepresenting" the country. He passionately championed the cause of the Italian sociologist, Pareto. His critical haymakers included swings at Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Marx, reformers and believers in planned societies, Van Wyck Brooks, progressive education. With enthusiasms just...
...Even Editor De Voto's gentler essays had a way of breaking abruptly with jets of angry prose that popped out like steam escaping from a safety valve. "What," asked perplexed Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. De Voto's real grievance? This indignation at other people's errors which seems to prevent him from stating his own case, this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements of his own. . . ." Critic Wilson Follett, who praised De Voto as a "gadfly to all manner of intellectual softies," hinted that...
...Author De Voto's career. His publishers, Little, Brown, brought out a brief, uncritical biographical study by Garrett Mattingly.* The Saturday Review of Literature, confirming recent Manhattan literary gossip, announced his resignation "to give his time to writing and literary research." His successor: smiling, good-natured ex-managing editor of the Saturday Review, George Stevens...