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American criticism in the twentieth century has been dominated by a tendency which treats literature as a self-referring activity cut off from all other spheres of life. Since the triumph of the "New Criticism" in the 1920s and '30s, most American critics have conceived their vocation as the illumination of the specifically "literary" qualities of particular works of art. In pursuing this mission, such critics have taken as their chief target various forms of reductionism--claims that a literary work is really about something outside of itself and that its true nature can be comprehended by methods borrowed from...
...memorable event, that fall day in 1929," writes Comedian Groucho Marx, recalling the publication of his first book. Titled Beds and based on his 1920s contributions to old college humor magazines, it was a string of one-liners and double-entendres detailing uses and misuses of the mattress. It also sold like common stocks after the Crash. In fact, recalls Groucho, now 85, "during the next 40 years, people refused to have anything to do with beds. Whole families slept standing up." This month the author will try again with another edition of the book. The 1976 version will include...
...Chicago Symphony, which finally replaced him with Georg Solti after disputes between Martinon's critics and supporters had plunged the orchestra into a state of near anarchy; after a long illness; in Paris. Martinon, who had trained as a violinist at the National Music Conservatory in the late 1920s, began conducting on short notice. In 1945, while on tour as a violinist, he was asked to take over-largely because the orchestra was performing one of his early compositions-when the conductor fell ill. His successful debut led to invitations from other orchestras and a career in conducting...
...House of Lords hearing resurrected one of Britain's most publicized scandals of the early 1920s, a story that has since been tagged as "The Case of the Virgin Birth." It involved a tall young aristocrat, John ("Stilts") Russell then heir to the Ampthill title, his vivacious and liberated wife Christabel and her baby Geoffrey, who was born in October 1921. Soon after Geoffrey's birth, John Russell filed for divorce charging that the baby could not possibly be his. He claimed that he and his wife had agreed before the wedding to lead separate lives and leave...
...playing second fiddle, I'm off to Newcastle with coals, or burying the hatchet.") When the World died in 1931, Sullivan became a fixture at The New Yorker, to which he contributed from 1932 to 1974 an unfailingly cheery, name-dropping Christmas greeting in verse. Buring the 1920s, '30s and '40s, the natty, expansively girthed Sullivan was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a legendary luncheon club of such Manhattan wits as Robert Benchley and Borothy Parker...