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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...
WRITERS AT WORK: THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEWS, introduced by Van Wyck Brooks. 368 pages. Viking...
Died. Van Wyck Brooks, 77, critic, literary historian and elder statesman of American letters, a deeply reflective, painfully slow writer who is best known for his massive, five-volume Makers and Finders; A History of the Writer in America, 1800-1915, which took him 20 years to write and spans American literature from Washington Irving to William Faulkner; of cancer; in Bridgewater, Conn. As a critic of his culture, Brooks argued that much of American writing was second rate, that U.S. materialism thwarted genius, and that the true fulfillment of America is yet to come. That it would come...
...three parts. The largest consists of his portrait studies, ranging from the swift Oriental lines that concisely catch the profile of his friend, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, to a marvelously strong-featured portrait of Painter Marguerite Zorach, wife of Sculptor William Zorach, to an almost misty rendition of a pensive Van Wyck Brooks. Alongside these are his pictures in silverpoint-a painstaking technique that flourished in the 15th century and is rarely seen these days. With a silverpoint pen, Biddle works on paper treated with whiting to abrade the silver. He draws tiny line upon tiny line, and as the air oxidizes...