Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about Harvest of Years is not what happens, but how dull and derived it's all made to seem. Far from being lit up by any lightning flashes of imagination, the play catches hardly a fresh current of air. In how they think and feel-or how the author thinks they think and feels they feel-the Bromarks are not much more than walking bromides...
...Wisecracks. Their great achievement was to create an atmosphere in which disputes could be settled-an example which, says Author Van Doren, could well be emulated by the United Nations today. All the things the Constitutional Convention was not help to define what it was: it was not bombastic; there was no playing to the gallery, no wisecracking, no demolishing of an opponent by invective or ridicule. The displays of learning were soon exhausted-the delegates got tired of hearing about the ancient republics. The delegates were calm, and even when they rushed articles through, their decisions were deliberate...
...Great Rehearsal is a day-by-day account of the convention; it is cool and unexcited. Deliberately, it seems, Author Van Doren has restrained himself from paying tribute to the magnitude of the accomplishment that he records. The book's drama is not in the telling, but in the event. For the miracle of the Constitutional Convention was not that the delegates organized a nation; it was the kind of nation they created, one that has grown and prospered beyond any in history, and will so continue, as long as it remains faithful to its origins...
...author of this first novel is only 23, but his literary promise has already caused a flutter in Manhattan publishing circles. When Editor Cyril Connolly of England's highbrow Horizon visited the U.S. last year (TIME, Oct. 20), he noted with sad alarm...
...strength of Other Voices Other Rooms, Novelist Capote is safe from smothering in laurels. The book is a literary contrivance of unusual polish, better than the brightly ghostly short stories that gave its author a minor reputation. But it is immature and its theme is calculated to make the flesh crawl...