Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Scott explains that he wrote Algebra for Parents because "ordinary school books are written to be used under a teacher. If a parent is moved to bone up on the subject, he is repelled by the usual textbook . . . seldom more than a skeleton of instruction and a mass of exercises." Although professional textbook writers may accuse Author Scott of oversimplification-trigonometry is covered in 17 pages-he tested his explanations by solving correctly all the College Board algebra examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession...
...Finding that little of the source material available in the U. S. could adequately supply them with the dramatic and pictorial qualities they had in mind, Messrs. Dos Passos and MacLeish formed Contemporary Historians, Inc., decided to send their own experts to Spain. There Dutch Director Joris Ivens and Author Hemingway, who followed him, spent several months on various fronts, two weeks in the village of Fuentidueña, 60 kilometers from Madrid. This week the film they made, previously seen by a number of sympathetic groups in its formative stages (TIME, June 21), will be generally released...
...would have been surprising if The Spanish Earth had not turned out as well as it did. Everyone connected with it, largely liberal artists eager to contribute their talents to the cause of Spanish democracy, has a record of high achievement. Besides Author Hemingway, who wrote and recites the infrequent but unforgettably eloquent narrative lines, there were five other unusually meritorious contributors. Director Ivens and his photographer, John Ferno, won the National Board of Review's second award for a foreign film* last year with their filming of the damming of the Zuyder Zee. The sonorous Hispanic melodies that...
...Manhattan publishing office of Charles Scribner's Sons was aging Author Max Eastman (Enjoyment of Laughter) conferring with Editor Maxwell Perkins. In walked hefty Author Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon) and demanded an explanation for Eastman's writing an article in the New Republic, later reprinted in a book of essays, called "Bull In The Afternoon" which concluded: "But some circumstance seems to have laid upon Hemingway a continual sense of the obligation to put forth evidence of red-blooded masculinity ... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest." Author Hemingway called...
...Author was born (1895) of Italian parents in Manosque, a little village in the Basses-Alpes, and still lives there, with his wife, his mother and two children. He left high school at 14, went to work for a bank, left it for the War. The success of his first novel (1929) gave him sufficient confidence to become his own master, retire to his house, where he hung a sign on the doorknob: "J. Giono works in the mornings...