Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer and leftish ex-president of the New York local of the American Newspaper Guild. He was mum on who supplied the shoestring. Top editors will be British-born Cedric Belfrage, onetime cinema critic for the London Daily Express, and James Aronson, New York newsman. Among the contributors: Author Louis Adamic, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the Churchman; Roger (American Past) Butterfield, Sportwriter John Lardner and his screenwriter brother Ring Jr. (one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"); Max Werner, Anna Louise Strong, untiring apologist for Russia, and ex-New Masses Cartoonist William Gropper...
...their worries is overpopulation. Man apparently cannot go on multiplying -and eating up the planet he lives on. This recurrent theme is emphasized by Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society and author of the recently published shocker, Our Plundered Planet. "Within only three centuries," says Osborn, "the population of the earth has increased five times ... It is now increasing at a net rate that, if continued, would double the earth's population again in another 70 years . . . But now, with isolated and inconsequential exceptions, there are no fresh lands anywhere . . . Many of the fertile areas...
Idealists. The believers in Author Heym's crusade are a long way from Richard the Lion-Hearted. Yates is hesitant and unsure of himself, even when his suspicions of Willoughby and Loomis have been proved; Bing is youthful and selfconscious. It is almost a matter of blind luck that the guilty are at last found out, and that a kind of rough justice triumphs...
...Author Heym's uncertainty with American idiom and American psychology is frequently apparent. His prose is surprisingly matter of fact and informal for an acquired language, but it is nevertheless flat and lacks any quality of suspense. Americans are not likely to think of themselves as having worked for "the great chemical trust." They are not likely to say to a girl in the morning: "The night was in your face." They would not characterize a Nazi: "[He] belonged to the strata of activists." The characters have a constant consciousness of position, prestige and appearances that Americans...
...Crusaders is interesting for its scope, for the ambition that Author Heym reveals, for his boldness in attempting a major work, and for the odd foreign quality, sometimes engaging, of his observations. But The Crusaders would need much more to justify the praise that the booksellers have given...