Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lippmann was hired on Joseph Pulitzer's New York World as an editorial writer, and subsequently as editor. When the World died in 1931, Lippmann, by then author of ten books and one of the most authoritative voices of liberalism in the U.S., was invited aboard the then staunchly conservative Herald Tribune as a bylined columnist. The invitation intrigued him. "It was absolutely a new idea," he said. "It was the first time a paper had ever asked someone with opposite views to write...
...Cold Wind and the Warm transfers to the stage S. N. Behrman's memories of Jewish neighborhood life in Worcester, Mass. The author of many urbane comedies of ideas, Behrman here wives farce with feeling. If his characters in earlier plays (Biography, Rain from Heaven) seemed not so much human beings as assorted points of view, in The Cold Wind they are often not so much human beings as pieces on a racial chessboard. And in the many places where Behrman commemorates traditional Jewish characters enacting standard roles his play is both warm and entertaining...
...committed to no creed, and more uncertain than I should be of certain ultimate beliefs, the God of Job seems closer to this generation than he has to any other in centuries." So says Poet Archibald MacLeish, 66, author of Broadway's latest hit (see THEATER). J.B. is an analogy between the Bible's searching sufferer and modern man. In the New York Times, MacLeish explains the necessities of heart and mind that led him to write the play; he also gives a moving view of his generation's despair-and hope...
...rule requiring knowledge of Latin or Greek. It had been put forward most recently in 1948, when the dons voted it down 250-155, and the clamor against enforced classicism was going strong again last week. Most clangorous clamorer: gadfly-sized (5 ft. 5 in., 150 lbs.), distinguished Cambridge Author-Astronomer Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (who lists among his recreations, in Who's Who, "wondering about...
...THOUSAND THINGS, by Maria Dermoût. Dutch Author Dermoût was 67 when she wrote her first novel. Locale: a strange world she intimately knew-the islands of Indonesia. Curious, bathed in memory and completely original, the book merges white and native existence in beautiful language, washes against the senses like an insistent tropical swell...