The Smart Set and The American Mercury had the sort of counter-cultural impact on their times that the Harold Hayes Esquire had on the '60s, Rolling Stone on the '70s, and Spy on the '80s.
Scourage of the booboisie: weighing H.L. Mencken's legacy. (Culture and Reviews)
The Smart Set would be that "civilized minority" speaking loudly and audaciously.
Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London
William D'Alton Mann founded
the SMART SET (1900-1930) as a monthly magazine of general literature with much the same kind of snob appeal that characterized his more scandalous weekly, Town Topics (1879-1937).
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Deploring monogamy, Braden, a former Rockefeller aide, Kennedy campaign aide, Kissinger friend and hostess, public relations consultant, and wife of syndicated columnist Tom Braden, portrays herself as the perpetual jeune fille, chaste, yet irresistible to men, whose only aim is to gain entree to
the smart set. As she puts it, "Joannie wants to get to go." This is her personal best.
Just Enough Rope
In 1908 he became literary editor of
the Smart Set; with George Jean Nathan, he edited the magazine from 1914 to 1923.
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Soon, as book critic of
The Smart Set, a job Dreiser helped him get, Mencken is editing, then blowing the horn for Dreiser's novels.
Cities on a hill: a journey through contemporary American cultures
Like much of Birmingham, it's aimed at
the smart set with cash to splash.
THEN & NOW; BACK IN TIME
Now that
the smart set have moved in along Allerton Road, to create what can only be described as South Liverpool's must-visit hotspot for bars and eateries, not many are tempted down Penny Lane, past the old Liverpool Schoolboys football field, to this crumbling pile.
WHO lives in a house like this?
Albums FREEFORM 5's Strangest Things is already being picked up by
the smart set.
The Razz: Clubbing news
Over the noisy course of a 15-year run as book reviewer for
The Smart Set, the magazine he coedited with George Jean Nathan, Mencken reviewed, by his own reckoning, some 2,000 novels, most of them, also by his own reckoning, the work of "100 percent dunderheads." Few things date faster than a cruel review of a bad book, but Mencken was no mere hit man: He was largely responsible for bringing Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis to the attention of American readers, and he helped put F.
H. L. Mencken on American Literature. (Arts & Letters)
For the pounds 1.2 million centre in London Road has been designed to feature the kind of opulence normally enjoyed by only the smartest of
the smart set.
Driven to opulence: Customers greeted with club class care
Watch
the smart set on the French Riviera or capture the Italian magic of Florence, Venice and Rome.
It's Carry On Coaching...and enjoy Europe
In holding gay men responsible for AIDS because of what happened in the '70s and early '80s, Paglia leaves out the vast numbers of gay men who were not in San Francisco and New York during those years, and the many who were but had no personal taste for the goings-on of
the smart set. Even accepting the lowest numbers about who is really homosexual, nowhere near a majority of gay men are infected with HIV.
Vamps and Tramps
Pursuing a career as a writer, Wright became literary editor of the Los Angeles Times in 1907 and in 1912 moved to New York to become editor of Town Topics and
The Smart Set, where he remained until 1914.
Van Dine, S.S
Burton Rascoe edited
The Smart Set Anthology (1934).
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