Word: wade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to call attention to a statement in the February "Advocate made by H. M. Wade in his article, "The Phoenix in the Babbitt Warren." In speaking of American literary criticism, he says...
...facts are here, indeed, but one remains uncertain as to the case which they constitute. A tradition is necessary, Mr. Wade assumes. But he hardly defines the single tradition of which Franklin, Cooper, Whitman, Poe and James are equally the representatives. He leaves in the air their common Americanism. Consequently when Mr. Wade comes to "developments after 1900" he only convinces one that there has been in these years a good deal of miscellaneous activity; he does not persuade one that this activity represents a real growth which in the natural course of things must flower. He leaves one with...
...article by Mr. H. M. Wade on American literature deserves consideration. It is Mr. Wade's contention that there is or that there is about to be a literary renaissance in this country or, as Mr. Wade further qualifies, "a flowering of the American tradition and a rebirth in America of European tradition from which this land stems." Before taking up the flowering, he indicates the tradition which is to flower. Then, after a survey of writers since 1900, Mr. Wade concludes in the second place that there is about to be a renaissance of our civilization. "The facts constitute...
...Wade's article has an unfortunate resemblance to competent notes for a survey course. . . A freer play of the mind, I think, is to be found in Mr. Creighton Churchill's "The Contemporaries of Sibelius," and very agreeable, too is the same contributor's "Variations on Several Themes." The three stories do not come off; their "ideas" are not sufficiently absorbed in the presented facts; they betray the diffidence or constraining consciousness of which I have spoken. More vigorous and independent are the book reviews; and more revealing, as one would expect, of personal adventure and direct relationship...
...Wade and Boylston prizes are probably endowed unchangeably by probated wills. As a stimulus to interest in the style of public speaking they have some value, but the prizes would serve to greater purpose if they also encouraged interest in the substance of public speaking. If, instead of an old-fashioned elocution contest, they provided for an equally old-fashioned, but still valuable oratorical contest, they would continue to fulfill the original purpose of their donors. Not only would they encourage public speaking, but they would encourage public thinking, a lost art for which there might well be some reward...