Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mr. A. does condescend to quote sentences which exist, he substitutes three dots for crucial grammatical features. He is thus able to turn English into Incoherence. His careless pen cannot even copy titles of articles correctly. By dropping an 's' from "Pigs" Mr. A. transforms the author's scholarly announcement of her subject into name-calling...
...omission of the "s" in "Pigs" and the insertion of quotation marks around the sentence beginning "Why aren't I concerned..." were proofing errors. Technical terms ("other-directed" etc.) were quoted 'because they were not the author's own. The CRIMSON regrets the confusion caused readers...
...spite of an occasional flash of gallows humor that sometimes sounds as if its author were not really sure what takes place at a hanging, the book trots on amiably enough. The pigeons of the title belong to spies, and Heroine Lady Sophia Garfield has some rousing cloak-and-dagger experiences. The most amusing touch is a supposed renegade who shatters the morale of Britain's pet-lovers by broadcasting that "few dogs and no cats carried gas masks, and gas-proof cages for birds and mice were the exception rather than the rule. The animal first-aid posts...
...fondness for melodrama of an author still partly adolescent shows in All the Conspirators. Eleven years later, still moodily youthful but by then a seasoned novelist, Isherwood invented a foil for his loneliness-and created his best character-in the abundantly friendly Sally Bowles of Goodbye to Berlin...
...Last Order. The immensity of this project, says Author Duggan, makes us "inclined to dismiss it as absurd." But the Romans were "genuinely afraid" of it. Before Mithradates could attempt his march on Italy, his son Pharnaces II led a revolution to overthrow him. Trapped in his own palace, the 69-year-old despot barked his last order-and was obediently stabbed to death by a trusted follower. Many a decade would pass before the memory of the King of Pontus faded from Roman minds-and still more decades before the brutish campaigns of the victors were forgotten...