Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WYCK BROOKS...
...incredible." Outclassed by earlier prize-winners like William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Mann, by women novelists like Selma Lagerlof or Sigrid Undset who have won it before her, Pearl Buck would be placed by most critics below such U. S. possibilities as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks...
...first (English-translated) volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The other literary landmark of that year was a startling encyclopedia, edited by Harold Stearns, called Civilization in the United States, the collective work of some 30 outspoken "young intellectuals," including such names as H.L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford. The startling thing about the book was the contributors' pessimism. While the press, economists and politicians glorified U.S. prosperity, these intellectuals croaked of U.S. economic shakiness; while others were snuffing the dawn of a U.S. cultural renaissance, these contributors found U.S. culture chiefly distinguished by shallowness...
...Maurice has been dead for 14 years with an international reputation, home-town honors seemed at least timely to Mr. Dooley and once again, he had observed sadly, "the show that Boston should have had is being held elsewhere." Initiator of the exhibition was urbane and eminent Critic Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England). An old friend of the Prendergasts, Mr. Brooks not only suggested the show to the Addison Gallery's Curator Charles H. Sawyer but contributed to the catalogue an article, Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast, that shone gemlike from its pages. Its simplicity was fitting...
...Gallery showed 19. Maurice, upright, high-collared, with silvery hair and mustaches, became so deaf that when friends called at the studio they swished newspapers under the door to catch his eye. Only his daily stroll around Washington Square interrupted his painting. "When short skirts came into fashion," Van Wyck Brooks remembers, "he spoke of the beautiful movement that women had made when, at a streetcorner, they turned round to lift up their skirts before they scurried across the street. 'That's a lost art,' he said...