Word: krutch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Wood Krutch defending Mac West in a recent issue of "The Nation" was the author of some extremely pertinent remarks concerning that simple-hearted lady, remarks which bear on certain aspects of American culture which cannot be emphasized too much. Mentioning the play, written and acted by Miss West, as sound though crude dramaturgy, he went on from the play to criticise the audience...
LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...
...book as a whole is logically conceived and gracefully written. There is a particularly delightful chapter in which the author riddles Mr. Joseph Krutch until he has nothing but his name to stand...
...Welsh parents, is one of few living literary men to whom the term "free lance" can be fittingly applied. Onetime cowboy (in Texas), onetime schoolteacher, onetime editor (of the London Vanity Fair, Saturday Review, Candid Friend), he is an all-time anti-authoritarian and rebel. Says Critic Joseph Wood Krutch of him: "Love, forgiveness and pity are his themes, Jesus and the 'gentle Shakespeare' his idols, but truculence is his manner." Says Harris of himself: "I am a lover of books and men, who takes pleasure in the past by traveling and in the future by dreaming...
Carl Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Julia Peterkin and Joseph Wood Krutch were the names signed to a letter (reported last week in the New Yorker) from the Literary Guild of America to the wardroom of the U. S. S. Warden. The letter was addressed "Mr. Wardroom Mess." The salutation: "Dear Mr. Mess...