Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diamond Lil (by Mae West; produced by Albert H. Rosen & Herbert J. Freezer) is probably the masterwork of the unversatile author of Sex, Pleasure Man, The Constant Sinner and Catherine Was Great. As a vehicle, at any rate, Lil remains after 21 years a good sturdy Mae Western. Too dated in 1928 to date much since, and so bad a play that it has considerable merit as a parody, Diamond Lil gives Miss West every chance to shoot the works, to be as majestically unrefined and unreformed as she knows...
Died. Franklin Thomas Baker, 84, longtime professor of English at Columbia's Teachers College (1893-1933), author of such teachers' aids as Every Day English (in collaboration with A. H. Thorndike) and The Teaching of English; of a heart ailment; in Yonkers...
...plea for moral courage, Insight and Outlook might have made a simple and admirable essay by a man who has shown plenty of courage in his day. What the reader will find irritating and incomprehensible is that Author Koestler has let his self-assertive impulse so surround his simple theme with scientific stage props and mechanistic explanations that his 1% of inspiration demands 99% of his readers' perspiration...
With this sentence, Franz Kafka begins The Metamorphosis, a novelette filled with the Czech author's own terrified and terrifying sense of life. Gregor Samsa, a timid, unsuccessful salesman slaving for his family feels rejected and unwanted. At the end, he hears his sister say of his insect-self, "We must try to get rid of it." The Metamorphosis appears, with 43 other Kafka stories and "short pieces," in The Penal Colony, a collection recently published in the U.S. Like the more famous novels, The Trial and The Castle (TIME, April 28, 1947), all the stories are marked with...
...bought, but his self-doubts forced him to turn back. In one entry he sadly and ironically remarks that his fiancee "wants the average: a comfortable home, an interest on my part in the [family's] factory, good food, bed at eleven, central heating"-just the things the author of The Metamorphosis could not give a woman...