Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to prove, by digging nearly four feet to the tomb of poet Edmund Spenser, that Francis Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays ended in complete failure...
...This crisis is roughly comparable in magnitude to that of the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries," the author of "Cultural and Social Dynamics" stated...
...Author Roberts leans heavily on Semmes's autobiography, gives no clearer picture of Semmes than of the times. For all his tributes to Semmes's greatness, the raider is likely to be remembered as the destroyer of the graceful clipper ships that carried with them to the bottom U. S. hopes of becoming a leading maritime power...
...poet but has attracted MacKinlay Kantor. The Noise of Their Wings, laid in Florida of 1937, revolves around the obsession of an aged millionaire, who hankers for a living pair of passenger pigeons. The main role, however, devolves on the millionaire's old friend, an ornithologist, who is Author Kantor's poetic mouthpiece. In a series of melodramatic disasters which involve half the main characters, as well as all the pigeons, the ornithologist is everywhere at once, confirming his mystical foreboding that no good can come of the millionaire's fanaticism, that "this entire historic enterprise...
...Author Kantor's story is teasing and ingenious rather than effective. As in his Civil War novels (Long Remember, Arouse and Beware, etc.), MacKinlay Kantor has a graphic sense of the U. S. past, writes good descriptive narrative, and creates an atmosphere of tension. But in The Noise of Their Wings he goes lame shuttling between the past and present, and most of his vitality appears to have been exhausted in devising a modern plot. The characters in The Noise of Their Wings resemble real people about as closely as the Smithsonian's well-stuffed passenger pigeon resembles...