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Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swin-nerton. The surviving member of a pair of old literary feudists is led, by his antagonist's death, to some uncomfortable conclusions about his own life. One of the best novels of a writer whose work is too little appreciated...
DEATH OF A HIGHBROW (256 pp.)-Frank Swlnnerfon-Doubleday...
...friend of such giants as Bernard Shaw. E. M. Forster and John Galsworthy. Swinnerton's talent was somehow overshadowed by his contemporaries. H. G. Wells ruefully confessed to Arnold Bennett that Swinnerton "achieves a perfection that you and I never get within streets of." In Death of a Highbrow, the perfection is still evident in the cool, muscular style, and in his merciless view of man's behavior relieved by what Bennett called Swinnerton's "mysterious touch of fundamental benevolence...
...younger intellectuals "if anything, are almost too pro-American: many younger English people have a sort of Americanophilia because they have established in their own minds the contrast between our allegedly soporific, boring, class-ridden culture and this crackling culture across the Atlantic." American jazz, painting, architecture, and highbrow paperbacks all suggest to young British intellectuals that the U.S. is "the country one must go to in order to see what is novel and important," and that "Americans have been into the dark places, and the lighter places too, of the human imagination and have found some answers...
...Emil Brunner of Zurich. "Mackay brought real excitement to the faculty," says Eugene Carson Blake, the Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Mackay also doubled both the seminary's enrollment and its endowment, started the school's first doctoral program, founded the lively highbrow quarterly, Theology Today...