Word: unread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishing the value of such books as De Forest's. More important than the change in taste is the current re-examination of U. S. literature represented in works like Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. That re-examination is burying many an unread bigwig, demonstrating that many a forgotten novelist has more to say to moderns. First discovery that is likely to prove popular, Miss Ravenel's Conversion should speed the search...
Strength already flowed back to him as he watched his Martini being mixed. The bartender slid the glass towards him, then drew it back and whistled between his teeth. "Say, you're a student, ain't you?" The question upset the proctor. He thought of the pile of unread books on his desk and nodded. "Too bad, too bad," the bartender commented sadly. "We can't serve drinks to students. Company rules, you know...
...future. They see science, rapid communication, the "prophylaxis of ideas" working for international good will faster than the forces of reaction can work against it. If, they suggest, reactionaries persist in running counter to the people's deep-seated desire for progress and peace, their newspapers will go unread, their movies will be shunned, their broadcasts unheard, their advertising ignored and, if they resort finally to force, their necks broken. Though pessimists may call this wishful thinking, readers will hope that this optimism is as well founded as was the pessimism of their predecessors 16 years...
...small but significant event in recent literary history has been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ago this genial New England philosopher enjoyed an unread celebrity as the father of Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott...
...Dating from the New York Governorship to January 1937. with introductions and annotations, a total of 3,493 pages in all. A 14¼-pound shelf-filler, five trunkfuls of vigorous clichés, these handsome volumes have been widely hailed by critics as a successor to the monumental, unread papers of Woodrow Wilson...