Word: author
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alcoholic author, a chronicler of middle-class American life in books like Main Street and Babbitt. She was a foreign correspondent. They married in 1928, Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson, and soon found that their temperaments didn't mix. Now the story of their stormy relationship will be told in Strangers, opening March 4 on Broadway. "Thompson was a great, great force in American life and, along with Eleanor Roosevelt, the most successful woman in the U.S.," says Lois Nettleton, who will play the challenging role...
Eugene McCarthy, former Senator and now author: "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty...
...Yugoslavia during World War II supplied incidents for Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen and The End of the Battle. In 1965, the year before he died, Waugh published an edited version of the trilogy under the single title Sword of Honour. It is a masterpiece in which the author fully joined the two sides of his nature: the detached satirist and the chivalrous, disillusioned romantic...
...also much seasickness that often resem bles a queasiness with the world itself. In the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) a middle-aged writer suffers paranoid hallucinations while cruising to Ceylon. Voices of passengers plotting murder and humiliation filter into his ears from parts of the ship. The author acknowledged that he too suffered hallucinatory episodes, and Pinfold's curmudgeonly character and opinions are essentially...
...Author Bernard Malamud, 64, is a messenger who brings the bad news. His vision is firm and tragic, and a strain of Old Testament severity runs through his novels and short stories: all of his characters either know instinctively or must be taught that life is real, earnest and achingly impermanent. As a consequence, Malamud's career has earned him awards and formidable respect but produced little dancing in the streets. He is an author easy to admire and hard to love...