Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Is the Answer? As young U.S. expatriates (including Ernest Hemingway) fled the middle class and the Middle West, they took refuge in "the mature Gertrudian bosom," as Van Wyck Brooks put it, "much like that of their far away prairie mothers, but of a most gratifying sophistication. Miss Stein gave them back their nursery rhymes and they had fine babbling times together." As for for own writing, apart from a trio of impressive short stories, Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and the moving play-opera Four Saints in Three Acts, Gertrude Stein was not so much...
...Robert Frost, 84, newly anointed poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (TIME, Oct. 27), gathered in new kudos: the $5,000 Huntington Hartford Foundation Award for 1958. Among previous winners, for their contributions of "unusual significance to the arts": madcap Painter Salvador Dali (1957), flinty Literary Historian Van Wyck (The Flowering of New England) Brooks...
Jottings From a Writer's Notebook (Dutton; $3) by sententious Author Van Wyck Brooks, 71, nearing his first half-century as an ever-flowering sage, essayist and literary historian, treated readers to some lively odds and ends of fact and philosophy. Nugget: "How many books can any man read? A supposedly well-informed journalist has written that Hitler undoubtedly read most of the 7,000 military books in his library. So Lawrence of Arabia was said to have read at Oxford most of the 40,000 books in the library of his college. So Thomas Wolfe allegedly devoured...
...limited to a thousand words apiece, but as he explained in the introduction, "Since every word a Harvard man writes is precious and represents a deliberate alliance with God, I have not dared to eliminate much." The collection is sprinkled with big names: Pusey, Conant, S. N. Behrman, Van Wyck Brroks, Dos Passos, Learned Hand, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Senator John F. Kennedy, and John P. Marquand. Also are two having more recent experience of Harvard College: Michael Dean Butler '56, and Jonathan Kozol '58, who contribute two of the longest pieces. The thirty-nine essays are often too personal...
Throughout his quarter-century writing career, Fisher has shown proper disdain for artistic forms and conventions. Rightly called by Van Wyck Brooks, "The greatest living American writer," Fisher's appeal is primarily intellectual, not aesthetic. Contrary to most living American writers, he has a great deal to say and a large number of highly original ideas. His writing is voluminous, averaging a book a year, and hence usually gives the impression of haste, but this is vindicated by his great concern with honesty in the relation of his materials...