id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9280 American Academy of Arts and Letters - Wikipedia .html text/html 4885 519 68 Greatness and pettiness are demonstrable among the Academy members, even during the first decade during which William James declined his nomination on the grounds that his little brother Henry had been elected first.[18] One of the giants of the academy in his time, Robert Underwood Johnson, casts a decades-long shadow in his one-man war against encroaching modernism, blackballing such writers as H. "Greetings to the American Academy of Arts and Letters", The New York Times. ^ a b "First Women Elected to Institute of Arts; Edith Wharton Among the Four Chosen — American Academy Makes Two Men Members", The New York Times. ^ "Huntington Gives Site for Academy; Men of Arts and Letters to Erect Building Near Riverside Drive and 155th St. Next to Hispanic Museum; National Institute and American Academy Accept Offer of Eight City Lots for Site", The New York Times. "Arts Briefing: American Academy Honors", The New York Times. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9280.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9280.txt