Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jump to the wrong conclusion that The Red Pony contains erotic or esoteric matter too caviarish for the general. On the contrary, The Red Pony is neither scandalous nor abstruse but of an innocence that almost qualifies it for juvenile readers. It consists of three episodes based on Author Steinbeck's youth. Central character is a healthy, shy, towheaded, 10-year-old farm boy named Jody Tiflin. Given a red pony colt by his father, coached in its training by the hired hand, Jody is in perpetual seventh heaven except when he is in school. A few days before...
...Author. California-born (1900), big, blond, blue-eyed, slow-spoken John Ernest Steinbeck has been a farm hand, hod carrier, caretaker, chemist and painter's apprentice, itinerant newspaperman. At Stanford University off & on for six years, he treated it as a sort of public library where he read only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos...
Twenty-eight-year-old Author Sommerfield, whose education was, as he says, "dubious," ducked school at 16 and worked as sailor, carpenter, stage manager, had one novel published, May Day, before enlisting for Spain. Volunteering in October 1936, he saw six months action, was at one time reported dead, returned this spring to England "to discredit this rumor," is now living in Lancashire...
...cinemas and musical comedies; newt-problems before the League of Nations. End comes, of course, when the newts, armed by now and tired of it all, rise against their masters and begin blowing up dams, breakwaters, shorelines and continents while mankind, in a dither, retreats to the mountains. There Author Capek (pronounced Chah-peck) leaves them, with the issue for mankind still in doubt, but definitely ominous-looking...
...author chose the faintly ridiculous, wildly improbable newt as the subject of his extravaganza must remain a mystery. Why he ends the book so indeterminately is easier to answer: he found he had bitten off more in the way of Wellsian fantasy than he could chew. Through the rest of the book, however, he does give about as copious a working-out of the satiric possibilities of his theme as could possibly be wished for, and while in some parts of this the creaking of the Capek brain is depressingly almost audible, in others-particularly those dealing with the grave...