Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harpoon in Eden, Van Wyck Mason...
...study of Twain published in 1920 and revised in 1933, Van Wyck Brooks argued that Twain fell short of greatness because he masked his reformer's spirit by writing humorous books-in short, by making a joke of a crusade. Twelve years later, Harvard Critic Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon. With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book...
...photographic essay, on Calder, by the editor Peter Van Wyck Brooks, exemplifies this tendency. His photographs are artful and interesting but Calder's sculpture is only the unifying backdrop for Brooks' photographic compositions. The charmingly personal article on the Herbert Lee Collection also misses the boat. It will certainly interest all of Mr. Lee's friends, but because the emphasis is on the Lee rather than the paintings, the article will fail to elicit widespread interest...
Sanford Levinson's article, "The Supreme Court: Does It Have an Innovational Role?" is provocative, although, like Frank Sullivan reading Van Wyck Brooks, "I have been rendered cockeyed by the footnotes" (83 of them). Levinson defends the concept of an activist, innovational Supreme Court by attacking the two most distinguished advocates of judicial restraint, Holmes and Frankfurter...
...Wyck Brooks in his Letters and Leadership wrote: "Without leaders we cannot have a great society...