Word: authoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, after, reading Marx, Engels and Lenin, Haldane became a Marxist. The natural result of this was a book. The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences. which Author Haldane published last fort night.* He believes, as does many another, that Marxism is the most scientific of all political philosophies, draws many a parallel between the evolution of society and the evolution of science...
Pretext for the ban was an article accused of slandering Italy's celebrated crippled poet, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The author of the piece, a young Italian critic who had dug up. much new material on Leopardi, admitted, the poet was "never very strong," but suggested that Leopardi's poor health may have been aggravated by his passion for ice cream...
...Brothers Ashkenazi, a chronicle of Polish Jewry told against a background of the textile industry of Lodz. Critics praised the vigor of its narrative, verisimilitude of its atmosphere, especially its detachment. Some critics called it a Polish Forsyte Saga; a few went so far as to call Author Singer the Polish Tolstoy...
...Eden, the best that can be said is that its earlier chapters compare favorably with the minor novels of Sholom Asch. The worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years' incredible...
Nachman is sacrificed to the OGPU, Author Singer has long ago sacrificed him as a plausible character. As the last third of the story turns into out & out melodrama, even anti-Communist readers are likely to feel that literature as well as Nachman has been the victim of a frame...