Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert Einstein, delighted with Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik's book, Listening with the Third Ear, sat down and wrote the author a little mash note: "I have read your book with sincere admiration . . . I am of course merely a layman, but I have a natural scientific interest." Winston Churchill had also found a new enthusiasm. "Lately," he confided, "I have taken to farming in a modest way ... I think that if I had heard about it when I was young I probably should never have gone into politics...
...doing so, he has made a name for him self as a flyer, author and textileman -pursuing his careers for fun as much as for profit...
...eyes of the world, Tolstoy was no more than a Count who was regarded as a promising young author. But when he began to visit the Bers in their Moscow home, the whole household felt that "he did not resemble an ordinary guest." Tolstoy roamed all over the house, talked to adults, children and servants with such impartial eagerness and sympathy that "wherever he was, life became interesting and significant." He never knew how much they all loved him because, as he often told Tatyana, he "was convinced that he was repulsively ugly...
Bullivant and the Lambs (which was entitled Manservant and Maidservant in England) is perhaps Author Compton-Burnett's finest novel. Its principal character, Family-Head Horace Lamb, is a typical Compton-Burnett tyrant-one who believes that he has sacrificed his whole life to his family and never misses a chance to remind them of the fact. He has married his wife, Charlotte, for her money, "hoping to serve his impoverished estate, and she had married him for love, hoping to fulfil herself. The love had gone and the money remained, so that the advantage lay with Horace...
...Author Van Gelder calls Important People "a kind of Currier & Ives of the current scene" and his publishers promise "a savage and deeply probing novel of the rich and frightening influential society of our time." He tells the story of Hero Dixon West, a rich kid but nice, who comes back from combat in the Pacific anxious to use his wealth constructively but not sure how to go about it. Grandfather West, crusty and conservative owner of a powerful chain of magazines, looks at first to Dixon like a threat to the good life, and finally seems like...