walter lippmann, william hazlitt, hofstadter, leavis, lionel trilling, lincoln steffens, ezra pound, owen wister, john dos passos, jacques derrida, oswald spengler, polemicist, reinhold niebuhr, devoto, arthur koestler, hannah arendt, arthur schlesinger, ludwig wittgenstein, robert benchley, ford madox ford, evelyn waugh, newspaperman, theodore dreiser, jeremiad, freethinker, tocqueville, dostoevski, hagiographies, proudhon, bertrand russell, alexander woollcott, eugenicist, ambrose bierce, dreiser, fdr, ashbery, dorothy sayers, bookman, tacitus, aby warburg, thucydides, andre gide, paul tillich, martin buber, plutarch, catullus, alexis de tocqueville, gustave flaubert, wodehouse, nancy mitford, doggerel, archibald macleish, barthelme, soren kierkegaard, ironist, juvenilia, pamphleteer, max beerbohm, edward gibbon, orientalism, updike, anthony trollope, booboisie, bagehot, objectivist, santayana, stephen spender, panegyric, norman mailer, ayn rand, david riesman, maritain, commager, gouverneur morris, epictetus, pepys, edmund spenser, isaac bashevis singer, hilaire belloc, herblock, jessica mitford, percy bysshe shelley, strachey, schopenhauer, thomas malthus, laurence sterne, nabokovian, de quincey, dostoevsky, gertrude stein, oliver wendell holmes, prose, writings, flaubert, susan sontag, vonnegut, lucretius, nathaniel hawthorne, toynbee, philosophe, randall jarrell, pedantry, whitman, dewey, irving, lewis, burke, dickens, eliot, emerson, lawrence, morgan, poe, rogers, sullivan, wagner, wordsworth, churchill, hemingway, holmes, locke

exigent, god-fearing