Huneker
Americannoun
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It was around this time that the cultural critic James G. Huneker would write: “All Coney Island reminded me of a disturbed ant-heap, the human ants ferocious in their efforts.”
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2015
“Why,” the critic James Huneker asked in 1915, “after the hot, narrow, noisy, dirty streets of the city, do these same people crowd into the narrower, hotter, noisier, dirtier, wooden alleys of Coney?”
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2015
Critic Huneker was never content merely to criticize a man's works— he discussed the man himself, gossiped, told tales out of school.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her first husband was the late James Gibbons Huneker.
From Time Magazine Archive
De Morgan started to blaze at the age of fifty, and James Huneker was the keenest of all the critics to hail anything in any art which was new and hitherto unclassified.
From Seeing Things at Night by Broun, Heywood
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