TNR Film Classics: 'The Gold Rush' and 'The Freshman' (1925)
Portrait of a Sage
This piece originally ran on May 1, 1929 READ MORE >>
The Old Conviviality and the New
This piece originally ran on May 12, 1926. I READ MORE >>
Reunion
This piece originally ran on April 27, 1927 READ MORE >>
Still Life
This piece originally ran on November 10, 1926 READ MORE >>
Mr. More and the Mithraic Bull
This piece originally ran on May 26, 1937 I met Mr. Paul Elmer More several times, but had an extended conversation with him only once. I wrote down a record of it at the time and give it here, as I wrote it then, embedded in a Princeton week-end. I was taken to Mr. More's house by Dean Gauss, who was one of his closest friends at Princeton and who on this occasion wished to consult him. READ MORE >>
The Two Scrooges
Uncle Matthew
A review of Matthew Arnold, by Lionel Trilling. READ MORE >>
Mr. More and the Mithraic Bull
I MET Mr. Paul Elmer More several times, but had an extended conversation with him only once. I wrote down a record of it at the time and give it here, as I wrote it then, embedded in a Princeton week-end. I was taken to Mr. More’s house by Dean Gauss, who was one of his closest friends at Princeton and who on this occasion wished to consult him. READ MORE >>
Stalin as Ikon
The Physculter Parade, one of the three great demonstrations of the year, the other two being the May Day Parade and the anniversary of the October Revolution. The Arcade Building opposite the Kremlin is hung with great faces of Lenin and Stalin and with pictures of runners and hurdlers so crude that they would disgrace an American billboard. The slogan, “Ready for Labor and Defense!” READ MORE >>
