单词 | Van Wyck Brooks |
例句 | A generation charmed by the lugubrious—once in O’Neill, Dreiser, and Anderson, now in Steinbeck and Van Wyck Brooks—is perhaps fleeing from the trivial shape of its own thoughts. Watch “Howards End”—Then Read It 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Many people look to history for lessons applicable to the present; they seek a “usable past,” in the words of Van Wyck Brooks. Annette Gordon-Reed’s Surprising Recollections of Texas 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z One of the greatest weapons in the arsenal of a political movement is what the literary critic Van Wyck Brooks called “a usable past” and what the historian William McNeill calls “mythistory.” Conservatives’ history problem: Why they’re doomed by their own “Golden Age” 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Van Wyck Brooks’s noted phrase, “a usable past,” was invoked: If we are to understand our future, and whatever our “mission” may be, we had better begin by examining who we have been. American exceptionalism is a dangerous myth 2013-05-26T11:00:00Z Mr. Van Wyck Brooks quotes Mark Twain as writing: "The words of a proprietor of a rich coal mine have a golden sound, and his common sayings are as if they were solid wisdom." Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Is there any other explanation," asks Van Wyck Brooks, "'of his Elizabethan breadth of parlance?' 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors |
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