Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rodrigner first appeared at President Conant's outer office last Thursday, where he expounded his plan for dropping all athletics in favor of an intensive program of diaphragm study. He was shunted from the Conant office to Dr. Arlie V. Bock, and from there to Clarence B. Van Wyck, secretary of the department of physical education. Finally he was allowed to exhale before physical education instructor David C. Hyde. "Shoving the buck, that's what it was," raged the professor...
...Ives's Second Pianoforte Sonata, almost entirely neglected since he completed it in 1915, got its first Manhattan performance at a recital by enterprising U. S. Pianist John Kirkpatrick. Composer Ives's long-unheard work turned out to be a sort of musical equivalent to Author Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. Subtitled Concord, Mass., 1840-60, it attempted to paint in music the surroundings and personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp...
...plea of Mr. Van Wyck Brooks (TIME, Dec. 5) for anti-German bonfires must be both depressing and alarming to those who believe in democracy . . . depressing that one of our most educated citizens should think in terms of bonfires; alarming that he should publicly recommend "the language of bonfires" to the American people as a means of communication. His excuse for the adoption of such a "language"-that the German people can understand no other-is a metaphor that exceeds poetic license...
Judging his 1937 Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, "the most likely to become a classic" of all books published in the last three years, the Limited Editions Club presented eminent Critic Van Wyck (rhymes with "bike") Brooks with a gold medal...
...most clubs have approved forthright political studies like Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's enlightening Inside Europe. Club programs show that much emphasis is placed on light romances. But in the last two years almost every important club in the U. S. has endorsed Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, which most U. S. critics would place near the top in any list of U. S. post-War works of literature...