Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your photo of Agatha Christie [Sept. 15] was as surprising as the unique endings by this superb suspense-and-mystery author. As usual, she had me completely fooled...
Though it was clear that some of he rhapsodic writing in Married Love temmed from the author's fantasies, it ,lso contained a lot of down-to-earth ommon sense. The marriage bed, its uthor proclaimed, was for pleasure as veil as procreation. The wife can and hould be a full partner, allowed to take he initiative and to enjoy fulfillment, way with the Victorian idea that a nice" woman should be the passive, un complaining object of her husband's bestial libidinous urges...
...published in 1918. Though it soon became a runaway bestseller in Britain, it remained banned in the U.S, as obscene until 1931, when Judge John M. Woolsey cleared it. (He later did the same for James Joyce's Ulysses.) Hard on the heels of Married Love, red-haired Author Stopes turned out Wise Parenthood. The idea of using artificial contraceptives to space pregnancies was then as repugnant to the Church of England as to the Church of Rome: in both, clerics denounced the woman and her works...
Died. Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, 68, sister of Novelist Thomas Wolfe, gently satirized as Eugene Gant's man-tall, tormented sister Helen in Look Homeward, Angel, who at her death was collaborating with Author LeGette Blythe on a book that she claimed would at last set the family record straight; of complications from diabetes; in Asheville...
...segment of the present college generation, but it is certainly to glib. Bogard suggests that "we've been taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...