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...family shuttled between a sprawling 18th century farmhouse on 150 acres in Cornwall, Conn, and a house on Greenwich Village's Bleecker Street, where an evening's conversation struck sparks from a roomful of such guests as Carl, Mortimer Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Critic Joseph Wood Krutch, Columnist Franklin P. Adams, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst, Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "We'd be talking along," recalls Fadiman, "and then we'd look up and there would be two little kids in pajamas, hanging over the banister, eavesdropping." Charles's mother would pack him and his younger brother John...
Five years ago Joseph Wood Krutch, biographer of Samuel Johnson and Henry David Thoreau, a man of letters accustomed to the Northeast, moved to an air-cooled ranch house near Tucson. Ariz...
When not pondering such puzzlers, Krutch is busy watching toads in glass jars, peering at yucca flowers with a flashlight at midnight, or driving a rattler away from a nest of hooded orioles...
Merciless Creature. Joseph Wood Krutch would let even the mountain lions and the rattlesnakes keep their own skins. In The Voice of the Desert there is only one creature he mercilessly skins alive-man, the destroyer of nature and of the natural balance. "To almost everything except man," he writes, "the sight of man [is] the most terrifying of all sights...
Readers will hope that Author Krutch never carries this line of thinking to its extreme conclusion-or else he might find himself spending most of his time cavorting with flocks of elf owls. That would be neither so enjoyable to himself nor so profitable to the world as the writing and reading of his delightful books...