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About all that many people know about Kurds is contained in the lines of Hilaire Belloc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: 659 Disturbances | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Although Chestertonian paradoxes are less frequent in his Autobiography than in the famed Father Brown stories, or The Man Who Was Thursday, they abound in his portraits of his contemporaries: Shaw, Wells, Belloc, Cunninghame Graham, Max Beerbohm, Sir James Barrie. Alternately scolding and admiring, he says that Shaw is no Irish rebel, that he is too "pro-British," a charge he seems to feel should cut the Irish dramatist to the quick. Chesterton and Shaw fought for 20 years. They debated on sex, socialism, Christianity, war, Ireland, Shakespeare, until they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Books, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...known for the books in which he defended his conversion to Catholicism (Heretics, Orthodoxy), his novels (The Man Who Was Thursday), his biography of Charles Dickens, his "Father Brown" detective fiction, his sparkling editorship of G. K.'s Weekly. So close was he to his good friend Hilaire Belloc that their violently medieval, anticapitalist, anti-materialist philosophy earned the tag "Chesterbelloc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 22, 1936 | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Rose Macaulay's brief (153 pp.) study of Milton is a neat literary lecture. Though her biography, like Author Belloc's, is well this side idolatry, she seems more awed by the grandeur of the Miltonic tradition, approaches his fame with an informed but sight-seeing mind. She does not share Belloc's sturdy contempt for Milton's rodomontadinous prose, sees in some of it "Milton at his extraordinary best and worst, splendid, exasperating, scurrilous, moving, repulsive, and grandiose by turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet Scanned | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...forced back to him three years later; the other two he married after he was blind. His only son died young, and his understandably unfilial daughters, according to tradition, were made to read aloud to him in languages he had never troubled to teach them. And Biographer Macaulay. like Belloc. advances no cogent reason for Milton's immunity at Charles II's restoration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet Scanned | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

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