Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular among the witty debaters of the Oxford Union. To eke out his meager chaplaincy allotment he began to produce smoothly written detective novels-a total of six in ten years. (He was once asked if the title page of his Bible would refer to him as "Ronald Knox, author of The Viaduct Murder...
...author of Porgy, far from providing here a crude checkerboard of right & wrong, shows a humane understanding of both blacks and whites, of liberator and deliberator. At its strongest, in the well-acted clashes between Denmark and George, the play becomes resonant and vivid. But, itself a slave to history, it sprawls and jerks across twelve years and ten scenes, and, lacking a center, becomes a lumpy mixture of chronicle, drama, melodrama and tragedy. What is most effective is the conflict between the two men, but what arouses most interest is the conflict within one of them. The main trouble...
...manners and cookery to the knottier intricacies of proper behavior for divorcees and the correct way to address a letter to an Archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Church ("The Very Reverend Archimandrite"). Cold-toned, it tries to sell etiquette purely as a civic virtue. "Think of ball games," raps Author Fenwick (who obviously never does) "without a conventional seating system. Whenever egos touch . . . common sense demands a system. [Etiquette] is essential to the amenities of civilized life...
...book imagines itself to be: plain common sense and practical advice. But there is also a great deal of pedantic nonsense whose prissiness would drive a climbing Milquetoast to despair, as he struggled always to say "telephone" (instead of "phone") and "whiskey and soda" (instead of "highball"). "TOMATO," says Author Fenwick firmly, "is better pronounced 'to-mah-to,' as ... it comes from the Spanish Toma-te,' which is pronounced 'tomahtay.'' This is a much hotter potato* than Author Fenwick seems to realize...
...Author Bolitho's reason for doing more amply what Strachey has already done more economically is the emergence of fresh material-among others, hitherto unpublished letters from Prince Consort Albert to his German tutor, letters from the Queen to her daughter the Empress of Germany, tappings from such virgin sources as the late Queen Marie of Rumania, certain aged members of Victoria's court and the 19th Century files of the Hartford (Conn.) Times and Courant. Hardly enough to justify a new and inferior biography...