Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More frequently forward-looking and writing souls abound in Widener who are simply prompted to take issue with an author where he can't talk back-on the pages of his own argument. Certain classifications of writing consistently evoke more violent reaction than others...
...this to-do is as expensively and prettily produced as if anyone could possibly care. Probably because the author of the original bestseller, Frank Yerby, is a Negro, the best thing in the picture is a more than ordinary interest in slaves and their lives; but even this feature is drowned in ornateness and theatricality...
...Author. A French edition of When the Mountain Fell, published in the U.S. in 1936, was the first selection of the French Book-of-the-Month Club. This is its first publication in English. Its author, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, was born in the small town of Cully on Lake Geneva. He lived and wrote in Paris from 1902 to 1914. The eight novels, four books of verse and two collections of short stories he wrote in those years pleased only a small group of admirers. Ramuz returned to his native canton of Vaud. shook off Parisian literary influences and identified...
...Author Burke traces briefly the history of clubs, dining out, music halls, other popular and sometimes transient pastimes ("For a small fee you could be fastened by the neck in the pillory and be kissed in that position by one of the girl attendants"), and comes down hard on today's substitutes. Writing of the early 20th Century movies, he observes that "the cinematograph was then in its infancy. It has stayed there ever since." He bitterly regrets the day "the male and female crooner, or moaner, began to trouble the night air. . . . 'Craziness' in entertainment...
...says "Zotz!" the pointee drops horribly dead. Jones naively goes to Washington to offer this handy power to the Armed Forces. The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing to respond to The Treatment. This gives Author Karig (himself a captain in the Naval Reserve) a chance to set up a gallery of fine portraits in brass and then paint mustaches on them...