Word: authors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only into Swiss!" In Milan, where he teaches literature at the Giuseppe Verdi Music Conservatory, Quasimodo was quite pleased by the honor (value: $42,606) that shocked Italy's literary world. But even in his hour of triumph, he found a moment to demean the merit of Soviet Author Boris (Doctor Zhiuago) Pasternak, reluctant rejecter of last year's Nobel award. Huffed Nobelman Quasimodo: "Pasternak is as far from this generation as the moon is from us." Quasimodo is an expert of sorts on lunar matters: after the U.S.S.R. launched its first satellite in 1957, he turned...
...safe with these. These woods are a part of the pasture used by my horses and milk cow; also, the late arrival will find them already full of other hunters. He is kindly requested not to shoot either of these." The advertiser: Oxford's own, only Nobel Prizewinning Author William Faulkner...
This Is My God, by Herman Wouk. The author, an Orthodox Jew and a bestselling novelist (Marjorie Morningstar), provides a clear, simple guide to his faith...
...escape their cul-de-sac, and help one another out of it, in every way they can. Uniquely, perhaps, among Tennessee Williams' major works, this one has no dominating masculine figure to bring it to an explosion of melodrama. "Because of its considerably delicate or tenuous material," the author says of it, "atmospheric touches and subtleties of direction play a particularly important part." John Hancock, who directed the current production, has worked scrupulously and to beautiful effect with everyone concerned...
William E. Schroeder, the designer, has used the freedom from literal representation given him by the author to create a set consisting only of black curtains, a door, a few steps in necessary places, and a large fire escape that provides the characters with a refuge from one another. It is a serviceable job, but the convention that the blacks aren't there is weakened by hanging a picture on them, and the impressive fire escape occasionally hides someone's face just when we want...