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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...observed a non-reading critic in the discussion afterwards, "the narrator's authority of voice in the first work has no advantage over the conscious semi-abnegation of the possible total event knowledge on the author's part in the third story...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Writing Courses at Harvard | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

What The Folding Green lacks in wit it does not make up in cogency. In the middle of the middle act, a white-wigged actress comes before the curtain to say that the author told her to say that reality and illusion is the theme of his play. This explains why the characters keep dressing up in all sorts of funny costumes and superimposing various new identities on the one with which they started; why real characters keep getting mistaken for ghosts, and vice-versa; and why it is sometimes hard to determine where anybody is at. Evidently Mr. Moss...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Folding Green | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

...called the "Macaulay flowers of literature." But if the book never enticed the readership he thought it deserved, it may have been because its nine volumes did not show that he had followed his own editorial creed ("Omit! Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit . . ."). In Author Samuels' view, Adams' philosophy of history parallels Tolstoy's in War and Peace, i.e., history is "a vast irony, a web of paradoxes," and the hero is merely froth on the crest of all great tidal waves of change. What animated the wave, Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adams & Eve | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Drawing on captured Russian letters and diaries, naval attaches' dispatches and newspaper accounts, Author Hough manages to move ubiquitously around the fleet and delivers a harrowing, heroic account of the battleships' most trying hours. "You wish us victory, but there will be no victory," mumbled Captain Bukhvostoff of the battleship Alexander III. "But we will know how to die, and we shall never surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Voyage to Death | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Years With Churchill, by Norman McGowan. The author's finest hour was to serve as Sir Winston's valet, and he recalls it with engaging anecdotal charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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