Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American humor is steadily moving towards French wit," said Andre Maurois, distinguished French author and scholar, in an interview last night. "It is the influence of city life on American authors that is bringing this change, most evident in the humor of such typical publications as "The New Yorker," he continued...
...best known books are "Joseph in Egypt," a monumental work as yet only partially written, and "The Magic Mountain," the novel which was instrumental in winning for its author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Of his other writings "Tonio Kreeger" and "Buddenbrooks" are the best known in America...
...concise but comprehensive survey the author shows the all-pervasive drive of the German Auschiuss on the myriad peoples of Eastern Europe and the Balkan peninsula. The Rome-Berlin axis, by its recent conquests, forms a solid bulwark across the center of the continent. France and Britain are isolated. But the Fascist powers have not the necessary resources to carry on a lengthy European conflict. If Germany and Italy are to challenge the world, they must establish a firm hegemony over the entire area lying between the Third Reich and Russia. The chances of the creation of such a totalitarian...
Another weakness of the book is the author's propensity to minimize or to ignore completely the possibility of friction arising in other European danger spots. Tunis comes in but for passing mention. General Franco is assumed to be already a pawn in the hands of Fascist dictators...
...publishers' readers "made bold to class this unusual first novel with The Bridge of San Luis Rey." A bold blurb, it is something less than accurate. The main aptness of the comparison is that Author Myers' story also collapses, too lightly constructed to support its load of symbolism...