Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edward J. Watson, 77, who as a telegraph messenger in the early 80s inspired the tales which Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck wrote up in the Peck's Bad Boy series; after long illness; in Milwaukee...
Last week Ives's Second Pianoforte Sonata, almost entirely neglected since he completed it in 1915, got its first Manhattan performance at a recital by enterprising U. S. Pianist John Kirkpatrick. Composer Ives's long-unheard work turned out to be a sort of musical equivalent to Author Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. Subtitled Concord, Mass., 1840-60, it attempted to paint in music the surroundings and personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp...
...Author. Like Henry James and Proust, whose craftsmanship and insight she more simply recalls, tall, shy, angular, 39-year-old Elizabeth Bowen belongs to the upper middle class which she skilfully anatomizes. The fashionable residence of her novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent...
Like many humorists. Editor Burnett has a few subjects he wants to write about in dead earnest. The result-as when, for example, he praises Ignazio Silone, author of Bread and Wine (TIME, April 5, 1937), or denounces fascism-is that his language, instead of acquiring gravity, stiffens with awkwardness, like a comedian at a funeral...
...some of Author Martin's implications were to be taken seriously, democratic readers might well start after him in a posse. But these implications, like the story itself, are content to be arresting. The book, unlike the idea behind it, has lots of bang but little dynamite. Though General Manpower can justly be accused of ingeniously sketching out an ingenious notion, it will not be convicted of undue seriousness, in any court...