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
"Essentially and inescapably civilized" is what Editor Mencken calls Critic Huneker, by way of congratulating him on being, in effect, European.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a Pole, Rubinstein seems to understand the zal in Chopin's works, which Music Critic James Huneker defined as "a baleful compound of pain, sadness, secret rancor and revolt."
From Time Magazine Archive
Here, Mr. Huneker is a real interpreter, and here his long experience of men and ways in art counts for much.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
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