Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sailor-hero of Mr. Wright McCormack's story in the April Monthly bears in one particular a grotesque resemblance to Byron's Don Juan when that perpetual lover was sent to sea. In the midst of a lament for the beloved from whom he was separated, Don Juan, usually not at a loss for words, was struck dumb...
...McCormack's Tobin lacks so good an excuse for taciturnity. He is kept in-articulate on principle. Poor Tobin could not have adequately shown his feelings in real life; and, Mr. McCormack apparently argues, we ought therefore not to expect to find them described in a work of literature. This is realism of a sort, but a very poor sort. It is certainly not the realism of Mr. Thomas Hardy, who would be as deeply buried in oblivion as Robert Bloomfield if his characters were as inexpressive as Tobin. It is the realism of the camera and the phonograph...
...Joseph McCormack, Erie...