Word: menckenism
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That Edna St. Vincent Millay does not destroy the illusion which her henchmen and harpweavers have created is small compensation for the fact that Mr. Mencken resembles a well-fed lodge-member. Colonel Lawrence's profile is sufficiently romantic, Ring Lardner's face is tinged with the traditional gloom of the comedian, and Sherwood Anderson, fortunately, gives an impression not incongruous with his writing. But these are exceptions. They cannot counterbalance D. H. Lawrence's beard nor Ford Maddox Ford's chins. And all the world now knows that the authority on behaviorism in blondes is herself a jet brunette...
...that the so called Mencken school has developed. It is perfectly natural to criticise American Rotaryism, religious Ligotry, and other popular foibles, vet whenever anyone does it, Mencken is immediately blamed or credited, because he was the first to find similar faults glaring enough to attract attention...
...There is, however, another side to the question. Mencken has got imitators. Why, Mencken himself has to combat that very problem in men writing for the the Mercury, who believe in the precept that imitation is sincerest flattery...