Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel impelled to congratulate your author on an amazingly colorful piece of accurate writing. My 23 years in India says he knows what he is talking about...
Some of Winston Churchill's wartime speeches were done into Basic English, recalled Author Bruce Lockhart in London's Sunday Times. But the Government's Basic Anglicizer went down before the "blood, sweat, and tears" phrase. "All that Basic English could produce," reported Lockhart, "was 'blood, body water, and eyewash...
...head of Morgan Stanley, underlined one possible defense. "Everyone knows that for years our industry has been subject to the most minute regulation and scrutiny by the Securities & Exchange Commission,"said he. "Someone, for whatever reasons, has misled the Department." Snorted John M. Hancock, partner in Lehman Bros., co-author of the Baruch-Hancock reconversion report (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944) and ex-U.S. delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: "Either these charges are based on ignorance of how business is done, or this is another campaign against American business made for purposes that will not stand...
...third story, "fadeout," does not approach the standard of competence of the rest of the fiction. The author utilizes flashbacks in a most depressing and trite manner, to show a man's supposed thoughts while he is dying of a war wound. Perhaps the last few words will give a clue to the category to which this short story belongs: "But the whirlpool began to suck him down again. It was so comfortable. So easy. Sinking back, fading...fading...
Evelyn Garvin's story, "If you Should Go to Venice," comes off too, but for different reasons. It is really nothing more than a vignette, which through the author's sensitivity and ability to project, keeps a unity of mood and feeling. Though this work is limited in scope and almost completely unexciting, it does accomplish the difficult task of getting into a child's mind and making the child stay human. "Apprentice" fails in describing children. The little boy involved is repeatedly and annoyingly referred to as "the cube-shaped boy," a bit of unexplained whimsy that...