Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...integrity, An Exchange of Letters was called into being by a relatively small occasion. Last December Dr. Mann received a curt note from the Frederick-William University, of Bonn, stating that since "Herr Thomas Mann, writer," had lost his citizenship, the University was obliged to withdraw its honorary degree. Author Mann's reply to this last straw was first published in the Nation, was reprinted by his U. S. publisher to coincide with his arrival in the U. S.* Even Nazis might be impressed by the dignity with which Author Mann states his position. "I have spent four years...
Like Thomas Mann for Germany, like José Ortega y Gasset for Spain, André Gide speaks for a living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French Author Gide's reputation is enormously greater than his popularity. He had never written a best-seller until, at 67, he visited what he thought was the Promised Land, returned to confess that he was mistaken...
Around this simple human situation Author Maxwell has written his second novel, a story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic, will melt many a common reader to tears...
...British freighter Hestia was unlucky because she was named after a goddess (of the hearth). She had run aground, collided with a Russian ship, caught fire. Now they were waiting off Celebes to replace a captain who had just died full of ominous mutterings. Into this Conrad-like setting Author Tomlinson introduces as main character of Pipe All Hands lean, elderly...
Fiction RHYTHM FOR RAIN-John Louw Nelson -Houghton -Mifflin ($3.25). Unusual first novel of Hopi Indians during the terrible Arizona drought of 80 years ago, by the research director of the American Indian Heye Foundation. Illustrated with ceremonial paintings by Indian artists and photographs by the author...