Word: wyck
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...fellow craftsmen who know him consider him the most skilled practitioner of a most difficult kind of book reviewing. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, when he edited the Freeman, said that Lisle Bell had invented a new form, ranked him with highbrow Scottish Critic Edwin Muir. Poet Marianne Moore, who edited the Dial's brief booknotes for the ten years Bell contributed, called one cluster of his reviews the best thing she had seen. The reason why Reviewer Bell has never received recognition for his services to U.S. letters: his 17,000 reviews have been written as a sideline, while...
Authorizing two minor sports credits for golf, Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary to the Department of Physical Education, has officially launched Harvard's newest team. Negotiations have been completed with the Oakley Country Club for a special forty dollar membership to take effect immediately and to run through Labor...
...Literary Fallacy consists of five lectures given by DeVoto. Purportedly a re-examination of the literary '20s, most of it is given over to a vehement tirade, strident as a soapbox oration, against Van Wyck Brooks and his The Flowering of New England. What may have puzzled Indiana students, and is likely to puzzle readers who pay $2.50 to share their experience, is Mr. DeVoto's belligerence. With a chip on his shoulder the size of a two-by-four, with many a dubious assertion insisted on with the finality of the village atheist, and with sideswipes...
Nevertheless Critic DeVoto then quotes with approval Van Wyck Brooks's diagnosis of what was wrong with much of that writing: "Writers have ceased to be voices of the people. . . . Preponderantly, our literature of the last quarter-century has been the expression of self-conscious intellectuals who do not even wish to be voices of the people. Some of these writers have labored for the people; they have fought valiant fights for social justice. But their perceptions have not been of the people. . . . The literary mind of our time is sick. It has lost its roots in the soil...
...periods of conditioning will be sufficient this week, it was announced last night by Clarence B. Van Wyck, secretary of the Physical Education Department. Attention was also called to the fact that all exemptions granted last term on the basis of a heavy schedule have now expired and anyone desiring renewals this term must apply to the Physical Education Department...