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Simultaneously reproved, this week Critics Watts and Atkinson simultaneously retorted. Critic Watts suggested that Fascism is no matinee-chocolates matter. Critic Atkinson challenged Eleanor Roosevelt's dramatic criticism in general. He relished her description of Paul Vincent Carroll's Shadow and Substance (TIME, Feb. 7) as "whimsical and charming." He caught her misnaming the Federal Theatre's ". . . one-third of a nation." He used her confession that Thornton Wilder's Our Town (TIME, Feb. 14) had "depressed her beyond words," as a way of begging the White House to back good plays "to the last typewriter...
...story about Italian battalions in Spain) that Ernest Hemingway was a contributor, not an editor. By last week Ken's direction had largely devolved on Messrs. Smart & Gingrich with the assistance of Messrs. Hemingway, Seldes, John Spivak (Europe Under the Terror), Raymond Gram Swing (Forerunner of American Fascism), Critic Burton Rascoe, Manuel Komroff, Sportswriter Herb Graffis...
Among contemporary American literary men, Edmund Wilson is a natural critic in the way that some writers are natural poets. He turns experience into critical formulations as poets turn them into verse. Even his novel, I Thought of Daisy, drifts into well-phrased critical discussions of the ideas held by its characters-although Daisy herself, a matter-of-fact, cheerful chorus girl, entertains ideas and men that no other important U. S. critic would try to analyze...
Last week Edmund Wilson again demonstrated how consistently he thinks in critical terms. The demonstration: a collection of ten essays that range from an account of a Princeton week end to an introduction to Pushkin's poetry. Not a unified book like his Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers includes a slightly heavy discourse on verse technique, but to compensate for that it has more of the U. S. literary scene than Wilson's previous writing, and it contains two brilliant essays, one on the ambiguity of Henry James which is the most searching study of James...
With the citation, "Van Wyck Brooks: Vigorous author, evocative critic of the America of Mark Twain, Henry James, and Ralph Waldo Emerson; examiner of New England roots and exhibitor of her finest flowers," the second of these annual awards was made...