Word: horizonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Cyril Connolly's Horizon is wide and highbrow. In his little (circ. 9,500) London magazine, he likes to wield a brush on big intellectual canvases. Six years ago Editor Connolly put out an all-Irish number, a year ago an all-Swiss edition. In the October issue of Horizon, Connolly paid his respects...
...Angeles. But to the average U.S. reader, at least, most of the 20 bylines in the 160-page, all-American number were unknown.They belonged to the rarefied atmosphere of the little magazines and literary groups to which Connolly gravitated on a trip to the U.S. last winter. Horizon's 3,300 American readers would find the picture of the U.S. disappointingly familiar. H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Erskine Caldwell et al. had painted most of it before...
Lower Learning. Horizon's contributors saw the U.S. as a land of Main Streets, movies and middlebrows. Columbia Professor Jacques (Teacher in America) Barzun, searching for "the Higher Learning in America," found only "an immense amount of Lower Learning. . . ." Writing, painting and sculpture were in a bad way, too. Observed Partisan Review's co-Editor William Phillips: ". . . It is almost impossible for a writer to starve, since [there is so much] easy money [that] it is difficult to be the kind of writer who might starve...
...General MacArthur to add to his present duties and powers the title of Personal Representative of the President with the rank of Ambassador, and to fly to China to organize with the Generalissimo a joint plan to prevent subjugation of China by the Soviet Union, the whole Far Eastern horizon would brighten with hope. His military, economic and political proposals might well be those outlined in this report. He could establish rapidly with the Generalissimo the relations of two comrades in a front line trench. They would work together as brothers for their common cause...
...circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...