Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing in a little British magazine, The Cornhill, Author Geoffrey Gorer, a British anthropologist, said: "If Americans are placed in a situation where they feel they are not loved, their natural tendency is to withdraw. . . . This is one component making for isolationism ... a reproduction on an international scale of the response, 'Let's get the hell out of here...
Richard Hooker, whose name few modern laymen recognize. Author McNeill calls Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity "the crowning literary expression of the English Reformation. . . ." McNeill credits 16th Century Theologian Hooker with being the "primary inspirer" of the rationalistic approach to theology, whose views on church government might well be useful to the present-day church-unity movement: "It is far from impossible that the future reunion of the churches of the Reformation . . " will follow the lines of Hooker's broad-church episcopal theory. . . .But even if he should fail to win us to agreement with...
Playwright Thornton Wilder learned that he was a banned author in Germany's Soviet zone. The Skin of Our Teeth had the wrong "theories about the inevitability of war," and Our Town had the wrong attitude toward family life...
Whatever he said after that was usually bad news for the prisoner in the dock. His words carried weight: he held degrees from Oxford and St. Mary's Hospital, London, was the author of The Medical Investigation of Crimes of Violence, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, lecturer on such subjects as morbid anatomy and forensic medicine at London's University College Hospital and St. Bartholomew...
...there seems never to have been a breathing space in his career. He was a lawyer, editor, poet, author, lecturer, a major general in the Union army, a major general in the Mexican army, a minister to Turkey, the organizer of an insurance company, a fortune-hunter, a hero. He was ruined by the Battle of Shiloh and again by postwar politics; ruined again by an attempt to organize a Mexican army. But after all his misfortunes, he wrote Ben-Hur which, both as a novel and as a play, and later as a movie, exercised a genuinely magnetic hold...