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
In the Pennsylvania station, Manhattan, Enrico Caruso was once heard by the late Critic James Gibbons Huneker singing for a flower girl who had asked for his signature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Critic Huneker is generally credited with having been "the chief man in the movement of the '90s on this side of the ocean."
From Time Magazine Archive
James Huneker named one of his best books 'The Pathos of Distance.'
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
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