For more than 40 years the radical thinker William Phillips edited Partisan Review, a magazine of small circulation and little money but with a great deal of influence. Writers and commentators whose words later commanded audiences of millions first saw their names in print in a publication that might sell 15,000 copies if things were going well. Mary McCarthy, Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow were apprentice contributors. Leading European writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus wore introduced to American readers through tin-Review. The magazine was defending T.S. Eliot, Franz Kafka and James Joyce long before their acceptance as central to modem culture.
It is clear from the passage that one of the achievements of Partisan Review ____.
was that it gave Americans an early chance to get to know Sartre and Camus
was the serialization of some of Joyce's early works
was to make Eliot and Kafka extremely popular among American readers
was to invite various leading European literary figures to lecture in America
was to show that small reviews could attract the interest of great writers
According to the passage, William Phillips ____.
created and promoted Partisan Review as a purely literary magazine
was a close friend and colleague of several of the leading European writers
was the first editor to recognize the literary value of T.S. Eliot's works
served as the editor of Partisan Review for close on half a century
himself contributed extensively to the review that he edited
We understand from the passage that Partisan Review ____.
caught the public attention as a literary magazine when it defended Eliot, Kafka and Joyce
was one of the wealthier of the American magazines and had an extremely wide audience
always published works of established writers
was the leading magazine for the cultural revival of the 1960s in America
functioned as a kind of training ground for many writers who were later to become famous