Word: author
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARK TWAIN TONIGHT (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). Hal Holbrook's enchanting portrayal of the great author and humorist. Repeat...
...himself finally intervenes, though he admits that "taking command is not my cup of Tetley," and Graham Brown plays him with elegance and panache in a sharp set of threads that is appropriately grey. But God and Author Mclver have a soporific tendency to repeat themselves until the play fights the players to a draw...
...that the urban cri sis, except for air pollution and transportation, is basically a problem of black people." Cheek thinks that it is therefore up to black people to find solutions. Rather than overloading his faculty with Ph.D.s, he would prefer to hire "somebody like Claude Brown," the angry author of Manchild in the Promised Land. He would like to set up a program under which an undergraduate would spend two of his four years at Shaw actually living in a New York City ghetto...
When Steinbeck in 1962 became the sixth American author to win the No bel Prize,* he was well past the crest of his powers, even though the committee in Stockholm professed to admire especially The Winter of Our Discontent, published in 1961. The novel was a 311-page allegory, set on Long Island, an unaccustomed territory for Steinbeck, and was written to portray the contamination of the nation's mor al standards and beliefs...
Tell and Tell. In choosing and fitting together the pieces of this biographical jigsaw, the author has shown rare dignity. She has submerged such feminine solidarity as she may have felt for Effie in a measured view of the manners and morals of both parties and of the age in which they lived. For all its peephole pettiness, the story stirs the mind like a psychological melodrama and flows as smoothly as any contrived 18th century novel of manners. Whoever was right, whatever their pangs and posturings, the Ruskins emerge as vivid and graceful correspondents. If no book like this...