Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity to denounce what he considers a cardinal sin--concentration by the critic on a writer's life rather than on his work. ("The book Walden in mentioned specifically, in four passing sentences though there is repeated reference to it as a pond.") Similarly, in a review of Bernard DeVoto's Mark Twain at Work, he ends with the thought that "DeVoto seems determined to prove through his tub-thumping exaggerations that he possesses every temper but the critical temper...
...What will DeVoto's job be if a calamity were to occur tomorrow and Stevenson elected . . . perhaps he will be head...
...junior Senator from Wisconsin, who seeks re-election today, did not dwell on Stevenson. He concentrated mainly on Schlesinger and DeVoto, author and former lecturer at Harvard...
McCarthy repeated his accusation that DeVoto wrote a magazine article in which he urged that "no one give the FBI information on Communists in government...
...DeVoto could not be reached for any comment last night...