Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, a little English magazine called Horizon has come closer than anything in sight to filling the void left by the U.S.'s famed Dial (1880-1929) and T. S. Eliot's London Criterion (1922-39). Horizon's influence is out of all proportion to its 10,000 circulation...
...times to start a literary magazine in Britain, Cyril Connolly picked December 1939. Europe's lights were blinking out, and England was in for it, when he lit his brave little cultural candle. He called it Horizon, and got a millionaire milkman's son to foot the bills...
...mags" duck down some intellectual by path.* At its end is a trap: mixed up in parlor politics, or tripped up by literary politics, they spend their days tootling for whatever cause they are stuck with. To save his long-haired baby from that fate, Connolly kept its own horizon wide. He refused to embrace - or to exclude - any cultural point of view, held to a catholic determination to work both sides of civilization's broad thoroughfares...
...that he thought Boston "a vast jumbled waste created by prehuman or subhuman monsters in a delirium of greed," we wonder what possibilities of contrast are left him if he should describe Europe's real "jumbled waste" cities. . . . For us, this "largest force lately to appear on the horizon of American letters" is a man to amuse a very prosperous culture which can still permit itself the undermining, disheartening, demoralizing effect of his kind of literature...
Devil or Saint? No Argentine had been such an international figure as Perón. Few had so dominated the Argentine horizon. The Argentine Who's Who of 1943 did not mention him. Yet two years later his name had become one to conjure with...