Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the A. E. F.'s "Lost Battalion." the Lost Generation (named by Gertrude Stein, advertised by Ernest Hemingway) was not really lost but merely mislaid. A crowd of prodigal sons who refused to come home, this Lost Generation was the self-consciously intellectual counterpart of the late U. S. phenomenon, Flaming Youth. Except for a few Peter Pans and a few suicides, these War Babies have now-grown up. In Exile's Return Malcolm Cowley takes a good look at his literary generation, admits "it was an easy, quick, adventurous age, good to be young...
...onlv eggs, vegetables and pennies, but beef-steaks as well. It was a very huge suecess." They will sniff at the mock-heroic episode in which Malcolm Cowley smote a Paris cafe proprietor for Art's sake, thus gathering a two-fisted reputation that later scared bookish Critic Ernest Boyd. Nor will they be moved by his version of the long-drawn-out suicide of Harry Crosby, whom he regards as a symbolic figure. But left-wingers will find much to interest them, much to applaud. To plain readers Exile's Return will seem a well-documented, often...
...Author. Son of a Pittsburgh doctor, Malcolm Cowley was born 35 years ago on a western Pennsylvania farm, spent all his summers there. He left Harvard in 1917 to drive a munitions truck in the French Army, later transferred to the American Ambulance Service, like his colleagues Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos. After several years' free-lancing in Manhattan and two years in France, he settled down in the U. S. to make his literary fortune, bought an upstate farm (on which he made the first payment with a cash poetry prize...
Headed by an endorsement of Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, and W. Ernest Hocking, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, the report is signed by John H. Dean '34, Raymond Dennett '36, George C. Edwards, Jr. 1G, Victor H. Kramer '35, Donald Meiklejohn 3G, H. Willis Nicholas, Jr. '34, Thomas B. O'Connor '35, John F. Spencer '34, and Herman Walker...
...opened her sixth annual "$100 show." Mrs. Halpert's previous $100 shows suffered from studio remnants. But no critics could spot unwanted leftovers in this week's exhibit. For sale at $100 each were pictures by such U. S. artists as Peggy Bacon, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ernest Fiene, Marguerite Zorach, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer and many another. Most of the pictures had been marked down from $300 or more...