Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well, Anyhow. In Brisbane, Australia. Salesman James Bernard Donohue was arrested for wearing a uniform and impersonating a policeman while selling advertising for a booklet entitled ''Crime Does...
...tried to rush it, George Bernard Shaw might have succeeded in giving the English-speaking peoples a phonetic alphabet. Says the Smithsonian Torch, a slim house organ put out by the Smithsonian Institution for the museum set: "We are in complete accord with Bernard Shaw's campaign for a simplified alphabet. But instead of immediate drastic legislation, we advocate a modified plan...
...ASSISTANT (246 pp.) - Bernard Malamud- Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...first novel, The Natural, Bernard Malamud brought a southpaw wackiness, plus a few touches of cloudy symbolism, to the subject of baseball (TIME. Sept. 8, 1952). In his second book he goes deeper into human nature, and the result is an even more impressive novel to delight admirers in the growing Malamud salon...
Brooklyn-born Bernard Malamud, 43, assistant professor of English at Oregon State College, is now in Rome on a fellowship working on his third novel. He writes out of his own experience (his father was a New York grocer). In The Assistant, Malamud brings to his story of the poor not only pity without sentimentality and realism without bad taste; he gives their humblest acts a kind of foreboding excitement that can only spring from a conviction that they-the poor and the meek-will inherit the earth...