Huneker

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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

The anarchic image, in which a swarming multitude falls back from the camera almost out of sight, summons both Coney’s assimilative energies and the tumultuous disorder of Huneker’s human ants.

From New York Times

“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

The vivacity of Mr. Huneker's style sometimes tends to conceal the judiciousness of his matter.

From Project Gutenberg

In fact, Mr. Huneker is an impressionist only in his aversion to the literary approach, and in a somewhat wilful lack of system.

From Project Gutenberg