Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But foremost, Edel is a Jamesian--and he was a Jamesian before it was considered fashionable. Born in Pittsburgh, he was whisked off to Canada by his parents, and he completed the major part of his education there. After receiving an M.A. from McGill in 1928, he studied for the...
"And James was concerned (at a time when Americans weren't) about what place Americans should take in the civilized world. It's curious that at that time people should have thought he was highly critical of Americans. Actually, Americans carry off the moral victories in his novels.
There is a crack in the Liberty Bell, a few chips off the Washington Monument, the fountain of youth is but a myth, and, yes, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. Still, they try to reach perfection; after all, Edmund Hillary could scale Mt. Everest, and who knows, Mt. Olympus...
"This country can support only two folksingers at a time, and right now those two are Pete Seeger and Odetta," a Harvard senior said sometime ago, giving up plans to make a living with a guitar and banjo and heading off to the Law School.
(So now you'll go to your party. You'll play another round of literary hopscotch--"I read Jude the Obscure last summer." "Oh, did you? I just finished Tom Jones, it's the first picaresque novel." And then you'll talk, in small attentive groups, of value judgments and...