Word: authority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Meets the Critics (Mon. 7 :30 p.m., ABC). The Vital Center, by Arthur Schlesinger...
...attack appeared first in the Oxford undergraduates' own weekly magazine Isis. Then the London Daily Mail picked it up and splashed it into headlines. All in all, it struck proper Oxonians as one of the cheekiest essays in years. As might have been expected, the author was an American-a second-year Rhodes scholar at Magdalen named Eugene Burdick...
...became the idol of a cult, presided over by Authors Alva Johnston and Gene Fowler (who turned over all his notes to Biographer Taylor). An ex-newspaperman and author of some of The New Yorker's smoothest profiles on amiable eccentrics, Taylor strings out the Fields anecdotes (first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post) with skill and devotion, content to be entertaining about one of America's greatest entertainers...
Joseph might conceivably have said. But sardonic Author Hesse, casting himself as the historian of the future, is not interested in making the history of the present as plain as all that. He leaves the reader to guess just what did happen to Joseph...
That anguished cry of womankind has echoed down the ages of this man's world, and the wise guys of every age have found that it pays to sympathize. Author Toombs has sympathized so shrewdly in Raising a Riot that he is likely to be paid plenty in royalties...