February 1954 Issue [Article] Settling the colonel’s hash Download PDF Adjust Share by Mary McCarthy, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Authorship Criticism Mary McCarthy Symbolism in literature United States More from Mary McCarthy J.D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit A suggestion that the literary hero of theYounger Set — the Great Phony-slayer — may, justpossibly, be a bit of a phony himself. WHO is to inherit the mantle of Papa Hemingway?… General Macbeth “Realism” in the American theatre Adjust Share