Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argument for the Clubs has been written anonymously (and illogically) in a sprightly and rather witty tone. The author admits that Clubs "probably" have a bad effect on the academic efforts of their members, but claims that they "offer the undergraduate a congenial circle of friends that the college at large does not try to offer him." He considers his Club friends to be less stand-offish than "the average Harvard man," but fails to make it clear whether or not those genial Club men are genial only with other Club men or if they are just naturally "hail-fellows...
M.I.T. has become a place for differential analyzers, spectro-photometers, oscillographs and thryatron tubes. Out of its laboratories it has managed to produce such unexpected specimens as Humorist Gelett Burgess and Author Stuart Chase. But M.I.T.'s alumni are more apt to be of another sort: Donald Douglas of Douglas Aircraft, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, and at least ten Du Fonts...
...becomes more & more a stock thriller, until the tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument of the plot...
...troubles with publishers, poverty, his wife's unwelcome pregnancy and the everlasting pressure from Communist pals to make Bernard give up his creative independence and write party-line tracts. Farrell's handling of this overworked material is inept to the point of being ludicrous. Since Author Farrell seldom settles for less than a trilogy, Bernard Carr is almost bound to show up at least once more (The Road Between is a sequel to Bernard Clare-TIME, May 20, 1946). Perhaps it is still not too late to take Critic Fadiman's advice...
...post-graduate work at the Sorbonne in Paris and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1911. He is the author of nine books and many articles...