Krutch

[ krooch ]

noun

1. Joseph Wood, 1893–1970, U.S. critic, biographer, naturalist, and teacher.

Example Sentences

In his 1958 book about the Grand Canyon, the literary critic and conservationist Joseph Wood Krutch warns that our initial reaction to one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World is that it “seems too strange to be real.”

From New York Times

Though much younger than other college-bound peers, he enrolled at Columbia immediately; among his teachers were the scholars Eric Bentley, Mark Van Doren, Joseph Wood Krutch and Lionel Trilling.

From New York Times

I soon moved on, via Skillet, Breaking Benjamin and Thousand Foot Krutch to pop-punk bands like blink-182 and Green Day, later venturing into grunge like Nirvana and hard rock like Guns n' Roses.

From BBC

In his 1960 review of Robert L. Heilbroner’s “The Future as History,” Joseph Wood Krutch considered similar themes and wondered about the future’s inevitability.

From New York Times

Cokewell had been making the Krutch, a putter designed to be anchored in the armpit for a face-on stroke, but while the method and the putter were basically neutralized by the anchor ban, the putter’s grip wasn’t.

From Golf Digest