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This volume includes 336 letters written by Woollcott between 1897 and 1943 (the year of his death). Most of them reflect only the genial, humorous, enthusiastic side of the man whom the N.Y. Herald Tribune once called "the final arbiter of things literary in the United States." "He wrote angry, cutting, and sometimes cruel letters," say Editors Kaufman & Hennessey, "[but] none of them is included . . . for the reason that they were withheld by their recipients." But this collection of Woollcott's letters is jampacked with anecdotes about Woollcott's distinguished friends & enemies, touching stories couched in the Little...
...spirit of the show is well summed up in Kirstein's catalogue introduction: "The best American battle paintings have been modest. They are filled with the quiet, well observed reporting of the conscientious correspondent, whose notebooks reflect the words of Walt Whitman's great inscription-I was the man, I suffered, I was there...
...start. Art was his concern, his hobby, his passion, and at this particular sitting, the substance of his interview. According to him, the purpose of Art is to interpret things as they are in nature. In order to be true Art, Art must be functional. It must not only reflect the people and their way of life, but its messages and meanings must be available and understandable to these very people. Of Salvador Dali, Mr. Boolba has this to say in his usual forthright manner: "His works are of a mind distorted. In other words, he stinks...
Naturally the Senator from North Carolina does not reflect the opinions of the people from Connecticut, and vice versa. He's not supposed to. But he does reflect the opinions of the people who sent him to Congress, or he wouldn't go back...
...TIME (March 20) you state that "the New Republic, non-interventionist until a few months before Pearl Harbor, shifted to reflect the views of its owner, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst. U.S.-born, she has become a British citizen...