Word: rahvs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...graduation magazine in 1930: a slim, self-conscious sheaf called Miscellany that lasted one year. Their later vehicle, the Partisan Review, was first published in 1934 as an organ of the John Reed (Leftist writers') Club of New York, among its editors being two literate Leftists named Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Writer Dupee meanwhile drank at the revolutionary fount in Mexico, returned to Manhattan to work for the New Masses. What threw him and Rahv and Phillips together and incidentally off the orthodox Party line was the blatant Soviet tyranny over culture, the Soviet political debacle...
Without Communist support, Rahv and Phillips' Partisan Review quickly withered...
...that time Dwight Macdonald had belatedly capitulated to the Depression's reddest virus, become an apostate from business and grown a (small) Trotsky ite beard. He took up with anti-Stalinists Rahv, Phillips and Dupee. Into the picture, as angel, swam George Lovett Kingsland Morris, who had spent his time collecting and even painting abstract art. Result: the rebirth in December 1937 of Partisan Review, as a vigorously, snobbishly radical and experimentalist literary monthly (later quarterly, now six times a year) which snubbed Dictator Joe Stalin, smiled kindly at Comrade Leon Trotsky...
...enthusiastically surgical criticism (Rahv, Dupee, Edmund Wilson), such a magazine certainly keeps a few (circulation: 2,000) U. S. eyes peeled for the new and elsewhere unrecognized forms of excellence toward which it is receptive-though faintly proprietary. However, though Partisan Review editorially reflects a highly doctrinaire sense of the world, it rarely reflects a humane knowledge of the U. S. west of Newark, N. J. But its editors have the courage to take life hard, and sometimes even acknowledge that their convictions are not immutable. "There are more and more things in the world," says Editor Macdonald now, with...