Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little attention was paid to Mr. Green -so little, in fact, that Evelyn Waugh (who had just made a hit with his second novel, Vile Bodies) angrily described Living as "a neglected masterpiece." Henry Green abetted this neglect himself. He made little attempt to mingle with other literary lights, declined to be photographed. (As a special concession, last month he allowed himself to be photographed for TIME, but only in hands-to-face masquerade-see cut.) But the gossip columnists of that year had been idly poking around in search of something to say about the wedding bells...
...Forum program, bitterly attacked the modern American novel as something "stone dead" and condemned the entire movement of naturalism in American literature since Dreiser. He claimed that modern American writers had "taken the cast-off rags of James Joyce and tricked out their prose in them" as a last attempt to make their books seem meaningful...
...only hope for American literature, Lewisohn concluded, is to be found in the work of such prose writers as Thornton Wilder, and such modern poets as Frederic Prokosch, Karl Shapiro, and Peter Viereck. He especially commended Vierock, who, he said, has been alone in his attempt to "convey with lucidity and power certain fundamental realities. of the spirit of man-which is the true purpose of all literature...
...surprise announcement from University Hall yesterday revealed that John Benjamin Obbey, a two ounce tautly residing in the Registrar's Office, will attempt to swim the English Channel next summer...
...caused in order generally to disrupt the delegation and create dissension. The Steering Committee finally moved that 'We condemn this action as a criminal act. We regard it as part of a plot, and if we discover the perpetrator we shall expel him. This is but another crude attempt to disrupt the unity of this delegation and out work for peace, but we shall not be disrupted. We shall go on in militant solidarity." The motion was approved...