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Anniversaries
; ...Colman, actor, 1891; Pietro Ne nni, politician, 1891; James Francis Courage, novelist, 1903; Brendan Behan, playwright...artist, 1909; Sir George Reid, portrait painter, 1913; James Gibbons Huneker, critic, 1921; Sir Frederic Truby King, baby-care...
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Variations on a Composer's Life
; ...Other "real" people serve as characters: the critic James Gibbons Huneker, the black composers Will Marion Cook and Harry Burleigh...Josephine, the two black composers, Mrs. Thurber and Huneker. But they include such walk-on parts as the engagingly...
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All Made Up
; ...unreliable friend (the music critic James Gibbons Huneker) that was found among the papers of...Crane's first biographer. According to Huneker, in 1 894 he and Crane met a beautiful...neighborhood of great writers-Henry James, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, Ford Madox...
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Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music: A Legacy of the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
; ...own words, while the remaining thirteen contain reviews and observations by others, among them Eduard Hanslick, James Gibbons Huneker, and Kaikhosru Sorabji. (Disclosure: a copy of the original text of Rosenthal's Mahleriana chapter was furnished...
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Ratso's return: Grit will out in New York City
; ...new. The historian Luc Sante, in his 1991 book ''Low Life,'' cited a 1915 article by a self-described aesthete, James Gibbons Huneker, who railed against ''the cleanliness, the wide streets, the playgrounds, the big boulevards, the absence of indigence...
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Music
; ...four-volume biography of Wagner; and most of the scribes who helped make turn-of-the-century New York a musical mecca: James Gibbons Huneker, W.J. Henderson and Edward Krehbiel. Brief biographies and historical context are provided. One may quibble about...
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PERCEPTION AND THE DESTRUCTION OF BEING IN AS I LAY DYING
; ...modernist concepts in currency from Sheldon Cheney's A Primer of Modern Art (1924) and H. L. Mencken's praises of James Gibbons Huneker's "Paul Czanne" in his edition of those seminal American essays on modern art (1929). Moreover, Faulkner was fascinated...
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(book reviews)
; ...refinedly perverse that had been whetted by, i.a., James Gibbons Huneker's stories, Thornton Wilder's Bridge of San Luis Rey and The Woman of Andros, and James Branch Cabell. On October 26, 1935 (1: 203), the author...
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Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation But Missed the History Books
; ...Bela Bartok, Rocky Marciano, Walter Lippmann, and James Agee are not exactly unknown, at least to those who...Writers-among them Sterling Brown, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, James Gibbons Huneker, Murray Kempton, Lindley Murray, Albert Jay Nock...
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EXPLORING THE BOND BETWEEN CHOPIN, SAND
; ...deeper purple in the famous century-old study of "Chopin: The Man and His Music" by that great American stylist James Gibbons Huneker, a man who had worked through every note of the music at the piano.
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