Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tarrytown, N.Y., the Hudson River mansion of Washington Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a public museum. Inside the quaint white pile, decked with crowstep gables, weathercocks and bronze finials, visitors found Irving's library intact, saw his shaving equipment, medicine bottles, pens and four-poster...
...Boys. The expedition was delayed because of the insistence of Cuban backers that the force have more planes. Though Author Ernest Hemingway, holidaying in Cuba, warned the Dominicans that the delay would be fatal, 16 planes were finally collected and three ex-Flying Tigers were hired (at $200 a week) to fly the expedition...
...author of the quantum theory lived long enough to see his discovery affect all branches of science and all human life. Last week Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, 89, one of history's greatest discoverers, died...
Altogether the English setting seems to be a mistake. Aside from the injection of a few Anglicisms and British accents, the play is more American than anything else. The focal point of the second act, a supposedly immoral letter, does not seem so terribly bad, and the author's obvious switch to English codes to support the validity of his characters' moral motivations, is a transparent device. Nor can the portrayels of intense emotion be palmed off as peculiarly English; they are poorly directed, and evoke very little. Sometimes they are ludicrous, and that adds to the evening's total...
...Author Morgan's villain buys men's integrity along with their learning, then tries to destroy their creativeness. "The vast ambition of his plan [was] to guide the development of men's minds, to collectivize art and scholarship, to harness them to industry." Like Faust, the judge sells his soul, later redeems it by shucking off his possessions and leading an ascetic life. To prove his point-that individual integrity can defeat collective evil-Author Morgan shamelessly stacks the cards on the side of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful...