Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evangelical-pastor, a professor of applied Christianity at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, an editor of Christianity and Crisis, Christianity and Society, contributing editor of the Nation, and an ex-Socialist who was still unflaggingly active in non-Communist leftist movements. He was also the author of countless magazine articles and eleven books on theology. His magnum opus, the two-volume Nature and Destiny of Man, was the most complete statement of his position...
Black & White Confusion. Author Whyte considers the years between 1914 and 1944 another Thirty Years' War. "For thirty years the human mind has suffered confusion, myriads of lives have suffered premature disaster, and the necessities of war still dominate life and thought. Yet this half-century has not been a monotone of evil, but a black and white confusion, bewilderingly paradoxical until beneath its contrasts the underlying transformation is recognized. On the one hand there has been ... a tremendous sense of new opportunities of ... material security, of personal readjustment, of love relieved from fear - a sense of the possibility...
...when the reader drops exhausted at the end, he is apt to feel more cheated than rewarded. Her tense characters are whipped by urgencies too violent for the problems they face; and as people, they don't stand a chance of survival between the same covers with Author Boyle's high-tension, consuming prose...
...Author Boyle and her characters wrestle these slender materials with an intensity that would seem supererogatory in Dante or Milton...
...Connor's stories are set in small Irish towns where good-natured, bumbling provincials doze through their days in even rhythms, scarcely touched by the frenetic spleen of cosmopolitan existence, and only occasionally shaken into surprised awareness of life's complexities. While these neat tales unfold, Author O'Connor remains in the background, rarely moralizing...