Word: hazlitt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collections of essays and makes Dr. Crofters more than "the Charles Lamb of America" can be realized more clearly, I think, in his last two papers. "The Unpreparedness of Liberalism" and "On the Evening of the New Day." Here be strikes out beyond the charming trivialties of Lamb and Hazlitt and Hunt, fraught though these terrifies often are with a deeper meaning, and enters a larger region. Old experience has reached its prophetic strain. Yet the tone remains that of the familiar essay. We become aware that this wise man, talking so informally, is able to see not merely...