Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blazing up with his favorite expletive ("By the Gods"), he cracked down with an order prohibiting "public displays of affection". Impatiently sidestepping the question of fraternization, he dusted off the Army's catch-all phrase: "prejudicial to good order and military discipline."
From the wings, most plays seem chaotic; so do most geniuses. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings might argue him a clear well of disciplined, harmonious art; but in his son's backstage biography, My Father Who Is on Earth (Putnam; $3.50), the great man sometimes looks more...
"And second, there is that little group of shrewd men in high places who read with tongue-in-cheek and move no muscle of their faces as they inflict the cynicism of their own interests upon the policies of the nation; to influence such men without joining them requires less...
Last week in Hollywood, old Walter Duranty, 61 and ailing, set up shop in a new kind of stall. For $1 a month, he offered to send potential customers a "personal" (but multigraphed) letter a week, with their choice of topics: from travel and world affairs to letters for children...
The Author. Nicodemus is Author Walworth's fourth novel (the others: Faith of Our Fathers; They Thought They Could Buy It; Feast of Reason). Daughter of a Methodist minister, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Merle Crowell, Novelist Walworth lives in a remodeled farmhouse in Chappaqua, N.Y. Says...