Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...identity of the sorehead is unknown. On the cover of the book it is announced that the author, is "Hollis Randolph Thayer-Smith," while the publisher is declared to be the "Pessimistic Society of Cambridge." But that he finds much to scoff at in Harvard and her professors is apparent from his score or more of sonnets, written in more than passing verse, which appear in his little volume...
...Joseph Conrad's early stories which bears the stamp of immaturity and which Conrad himself might well have wished unpublished." The unmentioned publisher of this book, Tales of Hearsay, is Doubleday. Page & Co. The book contains _ one story, The Soul of a Warrior, which is in the famed author's finest manner, three others are mediocre. In presenting the first story, the publishers have rendered an important service to literature; by presenting the others, they have somewhat soiled the immaculate fame of Author Conrad...
Alexander Woollcott?"Doubtless he [the author, Charles Horan, a cinema director] felt The Devil Within to be a bit thick for the movies, so he made it into a play...
...reporter on the Aquitania rushed up a fortnight ago to Michael Arlen, Armenian-English author arrived in Manhattan to watch rehearsals of his The Green Flat and, ripping open his coat, peered curiously at the young man's vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...
...passionately; to love an Italian bravo, forget him; then to love burly and brilliant Roger Brissot, then not to love him, then give herself to him, put him aside, become with child and at last find Love within herself. The work is delicate, painstaking; the repitition exhaustive. But the author of Jean Christophe craves?and deserves? indulgence. Annette and Sylvie is the first movement in another cycle novel, a study, evidently, in cosmopolitan feminism...