Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German unity and anti-Fascist solidarity. The Russian angel of the performance, a small, feral, red-eyed lieutenant colonel named Alexander Dymshitz, sat and beamed. But as the sessions wore on, the Reds could not resist the temptation to make political hay. Up stood one Vsevolod Vishnevsky, a Soviet author and war reporter in excellent standing with the Kremlin. He told how, during the siege of Leningrad, he had personally saved German anti-Fascist and classical literature from German bombs. That was all right, but he went...
...informed by some of the critics that Allegro was "perfect," "a work of rare distinction," something that "made history on Broadway" (the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it a thing of "great beauty and purity [which] just missed the final splendor of a perfect work of art"). And Author Hammerstein had been informed by the box office that his show had a record advance take of $750,000 in the till. The talk of Broadway for long weeks before it opened, Allegro would still be talked about a long while after...
...Critic Trilling, author of neat books about Forster and Matthew Arnold, is not yet a finished novelist. He mishandles the Dostoevskian character of Maxim. A good deal of the book frays out in thin, earnest psychologizing, a weakness which Trilling's clear grey style has not enough impetus to overcome...
George Weller, '29, author and foreign correspondent from the Chicago Daily News, will discuss the political situation in Greece and Bulgaria Monday in the Adams House Lower Common Room at 7:45 o'clock...
Presently a Professor of English at Columbia he has also taught at St. Johns and is the author of several books of poetry and criticism. In the twenties he was literary and motion picture editor of The Nation...