 | William Thomson Hastings - 1928 - 454 pagine
...This is a remark of the best, the youngest, and the most Irish of all good Americans, Mr. JB Yeats. It is true that under the glassy, brassy surface of...even the old Yankee backbone — that unblossoming stalk. I am speaking myself as a thoroughgoing Yankee to other thoroughgoing Yankees — as a "little... | |
 | 1997 - 338 pagine
...deadlock in the American mind, and all our life drifts chaotically between the two extremes. . . . It is true that under the glassy, brassy surface of...even the old Yankee backbone— that unblossoming stalk.19 The yeasty working of "cultural" history on "general" history was bringing about change in... | |
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It is true that under the glassy, brassy surface of American jocosity and business there is a pulp and a quick, and this pulpy quick, this nervous and acutely self-critical vitality, is in our day in a strange ferment. A fresh and more sensitive emotion... 