Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argument was over Author Greene's intention-and accomplishment. Greene is a Roman Catholic convert, with a convert's intensity: he recently voiced the hope that the Church may be driven underground, to find there a revival of spiritual force. Was his new book expounding a heresy or defending the faith? Had he made his "hero" a damned sinner or a shining saint-or merely a nice guy who didn't know how to get along with women? And what, exactly, did he mean by "the heart of the matter...
...Saint? What is Greene trying to' say? That Scobie is a sinner whose story should evoke horror? Or (as Catholic Author Evelyn Waugh supposes) that Scobie is almost a saint...
...doing something immodest" in hearing them. In the winter of 1864 he nervously read the beginning of the novel, War and Peace, aloud to a few friends; soon after, the first section appeared in the magazine Russky Vestnik, under the title 1805. "[It] still seems a little weak," said Author Tolstoy apologetically. "It will probably go unnoticed...
Hero Jack Dillon-like Author Cain a Baltimore Irishman-tells the story in the first person, a common practice in Cain's novels, which absolves the author from having to write in English. Cain's command of the I'm-telling-you-brother vernacular has been compared with Lardner and Hemingway, but it is neither as inventive as Lardner's nor as selective as Hemingway's. It often sounds like what it often is-something the movies picked up pure and handed back to Americans as if it had been their...
Reason Enthroned. As a good novelist should, Author Millar eavesdropped all the time. In a Riviera restaurant he heard his plum: two lovers arguing about the menu. Said she: "I want framboises á la créme." Protested he (thinking of the bill): "You're joking . . . [But] you know you can have anything you want within reason...