"Horizon" and Cyril Connolly, by Stephen Spender, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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"Horizon" and Cyril Connolly

by Stephen Spender

The Atlantic Monthly, December 1950, pp. 78-80

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    1. Old Century's River by Oliver La Farge, pp. 19-24
    2. Chimneys by Donald C. Babcock, p. 25
    3. That Early American Quality by Conrad Richter, pp. 26-30
    4. Trying to Write by Carl Sandburg, pp. 31-33
    5. How the Germans Spotted Our Ships by James Stewart Martin, pp. 34-35
    6. The Wine-Dark Sea, Cape Sunium by John Ackerson, p. 36
    7. The Cost of a Best-Seller by Frances Parkinson Keyes, pp. 37-43
    8. Gabriele D'Annunzio by Sir Osbert Sitwell, pp. 44-48
    9. The Monopoly of News by Gerald W. Johnson, pp. 49-52
    10. A Woman Lawrence Knew by Lewis Gelfan, pp. 53-57
    11. The Far Lands by James Norman Hall, pp. 58-68
    12. Nathaniel West: A Novelist Apart by Richard B. Gehman, pp. 69-72
    13. [+]
      The Atlantic Bookshelf by Edward Weeks, pp. 73-74 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Married Look by Robert Nathan
      2. White Witch Doctor by Louise A. Stinetorf
      3. The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford
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      Reader's Choice The Human Use of Human Beings, by Norbert Wiener by Charles J. Rolo, pp. 75-81 - 6 Reviews
      1. The Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener
      2. Ordeal by Slander by Owen Lattimore
      3. Journey Into the Self by Leo Stein and Edmund Fuller
      4. Korea Today by George M. McCune and Arthur L. Grey, Jr.
      5. Behind Closed Doors by Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias
      6. The House of Breath by William Goyen
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      Potpourri Rilke: Man and Poet, by Nora Wydenbruck, pp. 82-83 - 3 Reviews
      1. Rilke: Man and Poet by Nora Wydenbruck
      2. Reprisal by Arthur Gordon
      3. The Renaissance: Its Nature and Origins by George Clarke Sellery
    16. At Home Offshore by Carleton Mitchell, pp. 84-85
    17. More Sex Data by Hughes Mearns, p. 86
    18. The Three-Dime Dollar by Edwin Bateman Morris, p. 86
    19. Pigs by Rixford Knight, pp. 87-88
    20. An Ear for Music by John M. Conly, pp. 89-94
    21. Truth in Make-Believe by N. Bryllion Fagin, pp. 95-96
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    October 1950 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. Why Have a Labor Party? by Herbert Agar, pp. 25-28
    2. Hitler's Secret Records by Felix Gilbert (Ed.), pp. 29-34
    3. A Steel Man Looks at the Schuman Plan by Clarence B. Randall, pp. 35-37
    4. Finish, Good Lady by Louis Auchincloss, pp. 38-44
    5. Poems by Roberta Teale Swartz, p. 45
    6. Walter Richard Sickert by Sir Osbert Sitwell, pp. 46-50
    7. Can Hollywood Take Over Television? by Gilbert Seldes, pp. 51-53
    8. Dean Swift as a Human Being by Oliver St. John Gogarty, pp. 54-56
    9. The Doctors' Lobby by James Howard Means, M.D., pp. 57-60
    10. The Problem of a Common Language by G. Bernard Shaw, p. 61
    11. Atropos by Eric Wilson Barker, p. 62
    12. The Artists to See by MacKinley Helm, pp. 63-65
    13. The Far Lands by James Norman Hall, pp. 66-74
    14. Winning the Nobel Prize by Naboth Hedin, pp. 75-76
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      The Changing Tide in America by James H. Powers, pp. 77-78 - 3 Reviews
      1. From Versailles to the New Deal by Harold U. Faulkner
      2. The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt by Denis W. Brogan
      3. War for the World by Fletcher Pratt
    16. [+]
      The Atlantic Bookshelf by Edward Weeks, pp. 79-83 - 3 Reviews
      1. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
      2. Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
      3. Anybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald
    17. [+]
      Reader's Choice Back, by Henry Green by Charles J. Rolo, pp. 84-89 - 6 Reviews
      1. Back by Henry Green
      2. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
      3. Noble Essences by Osbert Sitwell
      4. Ideas and Men: The Story of Western Thought by Crane Brinton
      5. War and Civilization by Arnold J. Toynbee and Albert Vann Fowler
      6. The Spanish Gardener by A.J. Cronin
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      Potpourri Champion Road, by Frank Tilsley, pp. 90-91 - 5 Reviews
      1. Champion Road by Frank Tilsley
      2. Man's Freedom by Paul Weiss
      3. Long the Imperial Way by Hanama Tasaki
      4. The Art of Teaching by Gilbert Highet
      5. Collected Stories by William Faulkner
    19. All about Love by Raoul Simpkins, p. 92
    20. The Simplex by Smith Hempstone Oliver, pp. 93-94
    21. Old Farmer's Almanac by Christopher Morley, p. 95
    22. Idyl of the P.S. Corp by Rixford Knight, p. 95
    23. Home Delivery by Ethel Jacobson, p. 96
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    November 1950 Issue = 27 Articles
    1. China by John K. Fairbank, pp. 21-25
    2. Martha Graham by Agnes de Mille, pp. 26-31
    3. Horace Q. Ball for Governor by Dillon Anderson, pp. 32-37
    4. Business and Armament by Sumner H. Slichter, pp. 38-41
    5. Hitler's Secret Records by Felix Gilbert (Ed.), pp. 42-48
    6. The Ghost of Maiden Abbey by Lord Inverchapel, pp. 49-50
    7. The Play by Donald C. Babcock, p. 51
    8. Sterilization by Abraham Myerson, M.D., pp. 52-57
    9. How to Organize an Embassy by Charles W. Thayer, pp. 58-60
    10. Morality and Religion by George Santayana, pp. 61-62
    11. Tiger by May Sarton, p. 63
    12. Judy by W. Gordon Means, pp. 64-66
    13. Art in a Friendly City by Fiske Kimball, pp. 67-69
    14. The Far Lands by James Norman Hall, pp. 70-79
    15. "You Can't Escape Autobiography" by Robert D. Meade, Editor, pp. 80-83
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      Generals and Ghosts by Richard E. Danielson, pp. 84-87 - 2 Reviews
      1. Our Jungle Road to Tokyo by Robert L. Eichelberger and Milton MacKaye
      2. Calculated Risk by Mark W. Clark
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      The Atlantic Bookshelf by Edward Weeks, pp. 88-93 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg
      2. Elephant Bill by Lt. Col. James Howard Williams
      3. Belles On Their Toes by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, ...
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      1. The Twenty-Fifth Hour by C. Virgil Gheorghiu
      2. Post-Historic Man by Roderick Seidenberg
      3. The Prospect Before Us by John Dos Passos
      4. Classics and Commercials by Edmund Wilson
      5. Helena by Evelyn Waugh
      6. The Rest They Need by Herbert Lyons
      7. Dark Green, Bright Red by Gore Vidal
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      1. The American Writers and the European Tradition by Margaret Denny and William H. Gilman
      2. The People of Great Russia by Geoffrey Gorer and John Rickman
      3. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams
      4. Neurosis and Human Growth by Karen Horney
      5. The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
      6. The Road to Pearl Harbor by Herbert Feis
      7. Brave Company by Guthrie Wilson
    20. How Football Died---Continued by Samuel Yellen, pp. 104-105
    21. Broadcast of the Game by Frederick Ebright, p. 106
    22. Did You Write That? by Corey Ford, p. 107
    23. "Le Coktel" by Raoul Simpkins, p. 108
    24. For an Old Scholar by Robert McBlair, p. 109
    25. Trap Line in Alaska by Masten Beaver, pp. 109-110
    26. Niagara in a Teacup by Elizabeth Chesley, p. 111
    27. Spanish Accent by Constance Urdang, pp. 111-112
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    December 1950 Issue = 27 Articles
    1. Faith for Freedom by Barbara Ward, pp. 25-29
    2. Steel for the Future by Benjamin F. Fairless, pp. 30-33
    3. George Moore by Sir Max Beerbohm, pp. 34-38
    4. Ode to the Ambivalent by Elizabeth Chesley, p. 39
    5. Build and Be Damned by Robert Moses, pp. 40-41
    6. If, in the Foggy Aleutians by Edna St. Vincent Millay, p. 42
    7. The Everlasting Quartet by Whit Burnett, pp. 43-47
    8. Seals in the Ballroom by Charles W. Thayer, pp. 48-50
    9. Must 65 Be Fatal? by Rollo Walter Brown, pp. 51-54
    10. Standard of Living in Asia by Gerard Swope, pp. 55-56
    11. Sunday Schools Don't Teach by Hampton M. Jarrell, pp. 57-59
    12. A Gloucester Litany by S.L.M. Barlow, p. 60
    13. Mr. Wilson and the Gulls by Alma Stone, pp. 61-64
    14. Contemporary Art in New York by Aline Louchheim, pp. 65-67
    15. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Arthur Mizener, pp. 68-77
    16. "Horizon" and Cyril Connolly by Stephen Spender, pp. 78-80
    17. Dorothy Wordsworth: The Perfect Sister by George Mallaby, pp. 81-83
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      The Atlantic Bookshelf by Edward Weeks, pp. 84-91 - 4 Reviews
      1. Burning Bright by John Steinbeck
      2. My Neck of the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich
      3. A Fearful Joy by Joyce Cary
      4. The Adventurer by Mika Waltari
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      1. Hollywood: The Dream Factory by Hortense Powdermaker
      2. Mao Tse-Tung: Ruler of Red China by Robert Payne
      3. Speaking of Man by Abraham Myerson
      4. Psychoanalysis and Religion by Erich Fromm
      5. The Wisdom of the Sands by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
      6. Two Legends: Oedipus and Theseus by Andre Gide
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      1. Snobs by Russell Lynes
      2. The Trouble of One House by Brendan Gill
      3. The Injustice Collectors by Louis Auchincloss
      4. Shooting an Elephant, and Other Essays by George Orwell
    21. New Books for Children by Helen Dore Boylston and Jane Cobb, pp. 99-103
    22. Hunting Season by David Graham, pp. 104-105
    23. House Guest Etiquette by Hughes Mearns, p. 106
    24. New Long and Short of It by Scott Corbett, p. 107
    25. Stuffing the Turkey by Virginia Pasley, pp. 107-108
    26. Football by Loyd Rosenfield, p. 109
    27. A Christmas Dinner by Dione Lucas, pp. 109-112
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  Issues of 1962 = 6 Issues, 180 Articles
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  Issues of 1963 = 12 Issues, 352 Articles
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  Issues of 1966 = 12 Issues, 351 Articles
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  Issues of 1967 = 12 Issues, 349 Articles
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  Issues of 1968 = 12 Issues, 319 Articles
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  Issues of 1971 = 8 Issues, 180 Articles
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  Issues of 1972 = 12 Issues, 269 Articles
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  Issues of 1973 = 12 Issues, 235 Articles
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  Issues of 1974 = 6 Issues, 135 Articles
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  Issues of 1975 = 6 Issues, 122 Articles
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  Issues of 1982 = 12 Issues, 231 Articles
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  Issues of 1983 = 12 Issues, 227 Articles
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  Issues of 1984 = 12 Issues, 258 Articles
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  Issues of 1985 = 12 Issues, 253 Articles
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  Issues of 1986 = 12 Issues, 270 Articles
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  Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 290 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 12 Issues, 261 Articles
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  Issues of 1992 = 11 Issues, 232 Articles
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  Issues of 1993 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
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  Issues of 1996 = 11 Issues, 232 Articles
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  Issues of 2001 = 11 Issues, 406 Articles
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  Issues of 2002 = 11 Issues, 404 Articles
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  Issues of 2003 = 10 Issues, 336 Articles
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  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 341 Articles
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  Issues of 2005 = 9 Issues, 318 Articles
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  Issues of 2006 = 10 Issues, 382 Articles
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  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 264 Articles
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