SOME PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS The Academic Mind by JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. AT THE OUTSET it may be appropriate to remark that as opposed to the type of academic mind that is meditative, cautious,...
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THE LITTLE MAGAZINES Golden Horizon JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. T HE TERM "little magazine" is now so big in its coverage that one is almost embarrassed to use it. In its strictest sense "little...
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The Moral Burden of Mr. Greene's Parable THE QUIET AMERICAN. By Graham Greene. Viking. $3.50. By WILLIAM CLANCY G RAHAM GREENE, it should by now be universally acknowledged, has one of the...
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BOOKS Impersonal Ironist of the Single Vision TEN NORTH FREDERICK. By John O'Hara. Random House. $3.95. By JOHN F. SULLIVAN O NE of the reflections to which a reading of John O'Hara's new...
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BOOKS Ordeal and Achievement THE INMOST LEAP. By Alfred Kazin. Harcourt, Brace. $4.75. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. W HEN he was twenty-seven Alfred Kazin published a precociously bold and...
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BOOKS A Note on the Prevalence of Anthologies ESSAYS TODAY. Edited by Richard M. Ludwig. Harcourt, Brace. $2.50. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. A LTHOUGH the publishers evidently have some notion...
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A Guidebook to Modern Literature THE MODERN WRITER AND HIS WORLD. By G. S. Fraser. Criterion. $3.95. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. T HE s u, bject of this long, crowded volume is, the...
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BOOKS The Craft of the Novel THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL 19001950. By Leon Edel. Lippincott. $3. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. LEON Edel's book is not a remarkable contribution to the literature of...
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An Environment in which Protest Literature Was Born THE CHICAGO RENAISSANCE IN AMERICAN LETTERS. By Bernard Duffey. Michlgan State College. $6.50. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. C HICAGO has long...
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Europe's Image of America WHAT FACTUAL BASIS IS THERE FOR THE PREVAILING CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT US? JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. U LYSSES, that cunning Platonist in "Troilus...
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Americans will agree with me, he is one of your finest short-story writers? All American novelists are continually falling into the trap of melodrama, not excluding the very finest, such as...
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