Word: geismar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters from the 19th Century to the present but loses, thanks to its enthusiasm, an urgently needed power of discrimination between the excellence of some contemporary authors, the hearty good intentions of others, and the mere jingoistic opportunism of still others. In Writers in Crisis ($3) Maxwell Geismar acutely dissects the U.S. writers of the past two decades, but keeps up a kind of smart patter which is apt to put off the more intelligent of his readers...