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Students wishing to obtain exemption or reduction in the number of hours of required physical exercise should apply at Mr. Van Wyck's office by February...
During the year: > Many writers, some despairing of interpreting war during a war, found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...
...well enough to go back to the office." Author Thurber's implied rejoinder is that readers who enjoy the spectacle of strait-jacketed Author Thurber should look to their own jackets. "Man," says Thurber, "would seem to be slowly slipping back to all fours, in spite of Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford and Robert Frost...
...Roots of American Culture, edited after her death by Critic Van Wyck Brooks, includes eight essays. One examines the esthetic opinions of Founding Fathers Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams, and the culture of their time. One is an almost book-length study of the early American theater. One is a shorter companion piece on music. One is about the Shakers, who became "a folk" in one generation, then all but died out, due to their insistence on celibacy, in another. There are minor pieces on Negro tradition, folklore, the early U.S. genre painter Voltaire Combe, and the possible future...
Bustle-Ridden Rabelais. The myth of Mark Twain as a frustrated, bustle-ridden Rabelais (see Van Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain) is nearly dead. DeVoto has done more than any other critic to kill that petticoat ghost, but in this book, with fresh evidence at hand, he gives it another kicking around. The author of the ribald 1601-itself a symptom of inhibition-needed neither his staid friend William Dean Howells nor his gentle wife Olivia to wash out his mouth with soap. Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print...