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...Mencken Chrestomathy, by H. L. Mencken edited and annotated by the author, Alfred A. Knont New York...
Ther is a notion in the land that the writings of Henry Louis Mencken were served up exclusively for a by-gone age, namely the Twenties, and it follows that they no longer merit attention. This notion was voted, on and passed, it would seem, by the professional critics of our letters, their camp-followers, and their spiritual confreres, all of whom are afflicted with the need either to treat things seriously or to ignore them altogether. Since Mencken clearly cannot be taken seriously in this day and age, the alternative is chosen, with the result that his books, except...
Quite early in its history, the Clinic began the practice of inviting visiting dignitaries and distinguished men from the University to come for the 40-cent lunch and talk with the staff. Julian Huxley, H. L. Mencken, and the psychologist Carl Jung are among the diverse visitors the Clinic has had. The late Robert Benchley also came. He arrived in the middle of the joke experiment. Benchley showed great interest in all the apparatus used to measure a person's internal and external responses to the jokes, and in a few weeks the Clinic staff was reading an elaborate parody...
...intense awareness of his contingency and freedom . . ."). Onetime Texas Congressman Maury Maverick's great contribution, gobbledygook, for the verbiage of officialdom, is also there, along with a learned note that it derives from the gobblings of turkeys. F.D.R. had contributed iffy (for questions) and H. L. Mencken ecdysiast (for stripteaser...
They had two children,* wrote and made their living as free-lance journalists and translators. Muñoz contributed to the New Republic, the Nation, the Baltimore Sun and Henry L. Mencken's Smart Set and American Mercury. Of his poetry Muñoz now says: "It stinks...